Digital Sports Journalism

Name: Digital Sports Journalism
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138296206
Price: 341.0 NZD
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By Charles Lambert

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Digital Sports Journalism provides detailed guidance on essential digital skills for sports journalists, including live blogging, short video production, social media storytelling, podcasting, and longform online journalism. Featuring case studies, practical exercises, and interviews with experienced professionals from top organisations like the BBC and Guardian, it equips students and practitioners to master new media technologies in sports reporting.
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This book is ideal for students of journalism and professional sports reporters seeking to enhance their digital skills and adapt to the evolving media landscape in sports coverage.

Digital Sports Journalism foregrounds the essential practices for covering sport for online audiences.

Description

Digital Sports Journalism gives detailed guidance on a range of digital practices for producing content for smartphones and websites. Each chapter discusses a skill that has become essential for sports journalists today, with student-friendly features throughout to support learning. These include case studies, examples of sports journalism from leading global publications, as well as top tips and practical exercises.

The book also presents interviews with leading sport and club journalists with wide-ranging experience at the BBC, Copa90, Wimbledon Tennis, the Guardian and BT Sport, who discuss working with new technologies to cover sports stories and events.

Chapters cover:

live blogging;
making and disseminating short videos;
working for a sports club or governing body;
finding and transmitting stories on social media;
podcasting;
longform online journalism.

The job of a sports journalist has altered dramatically over the first two decades of the 21st century, with scope to write content across a new variety of digital platforms and mediums. Digital Sports Journalism will help students of journalism and professionals unlock the potential of these new media technologies.

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Praised as an informative, entertaining, and educational read, the book is described as a must-read for aspiring sports journalists. Experts highlight its up-to-date content, blending modern digital techniques with established journalism methods, making it a thoroughly researched and insightful guide.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138296206

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 July 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 3 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 520g

Pages: 184

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Charles Lambert Computing & Technology Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Charles M. Lambert spent two decades as a television journalist, covering news and sport for the BBC and ITV. He has run the sports journalism degree courses at the University of East London and the University for the Creative Arts, UK, where he’s now in charge of the journalism and media cluster.