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Chapter 2A: Traditional Sport Reporting (The Traditional Sources) SEL151
Chapter 2A: Traditional Sport Reporting (The Traditional Sources) SEL151
TRADITIONAL SPORT
REPORTING
(THE TRADITIONAL SOURCES)
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THE SOURCES!
Sources are persons with information
reporters need for a story of for background.
[Melvin Mencher, 1981]
01 02
• Non-traditional sources
• Traditional sources :
(Non-human) :
• Those contacted
• The origins of information
through beats and
gathered from precision
assignments.
journalism techniques.
• Eg: coaches, parents,
• Eg : surveys, polls, content
athletes, club officials,
analysis, field experiments,
doctors, physio, trainers,
privileges, anonymous
former players.
sources, minority groups
and dissidents.
THE TRADITIONAL SOURCES
01
COACH
02
03 04
PARENTS
03
03
01 02 04
ATHLETE CAMARADERIE
AMONG
REPORTERS
CULTIVATING AND MAINTAINING
SOURCES
02
2. BE PLEASANT : Cheer up.
01 • It should be obvious that
cooperation will go to the
cheerful
person more often than to
the sour individual. 03
1. MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN :
Familiarity breeds rapport.
• Reporters on beats or those
who deal with the same
sources repeatedly should visit 3. BE CONSIDERATE: Newspaper deadlines
and chat even when they come at inconvenient times.
aren’t seeking information.
If you want to call a sources at an odd hour, ask
yourself whether it’s necessary. If it is,
explain why and apologize for the
intrusion.
CULTIVATING AND MAINTAINING
SOURCES
05
5. DON’T IGNORE
04 UNDERLINGS
INTERVIEWS
METHODS FOR
INFORMATION
GATHERING
HANDLING
(QUOTATION)
Fragmentary quotations: Dialogue quotations:
•Combination of •Quotes from two or
paraphrased and direct more speakers such as
(exact) quotation. an exchange between a
coach and a player.
CHAPTER 2C
TRADITIONAL SPORT
REPORTING
(THE OBSERVATION)
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OBSERVATION
STRATEGIES
3. Develop a set of
guidelines you will use to
• A writer’s observation will carry it out.
differentiate between a
routine story and a story
readers have delight in
reading
2. Where and when will
• Observation is an action. these observations occur –
• It involves watching over what time frame and
how many observations?.
something, or someone, to
gain information
• The observer/journalist must
work to be unobtrusive and
unnoticed, so they do not
1. Determining who or what you intend to
influence the outcome of the observe.
observation in any way
OBSERVATION
STRATEGIES 6. Practice the art of
observation often
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