Another semester and another class with the “Schloss.” After dealing with the usual business of getting settled into the Monday night class, we went into the real business of the sports world. This means another rant of “It’s all about the money!” or the newly updated “It’s about the money!”
True, the world of sports these days is driven by dollar signs. But what else is it driven by? Is it passion of the game? Greed? Fame? Fortune? The answer to that is something we as journalists will discover as this semester moves on.
We were asked to give a short list of top sports stories, local and national, from to 2008 till the month of January. Most of us had a pretty intriguing list including the sale of the Cubs to the Ricketts family, Tiger winning on one leg, and the dominance of Michael Phelps in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
New to sports reporting realm of Columbia College is the “tech guy” Mike Reilley, who will assist us in our aspects with online journalism and reporting. Reilley presented us with an informative PowerPoint presentation and gave us some details on his highly qualified background, which includes teaching at DePaul University, and experience at various papers and magazines.
Finally moving on to the convergence room, we met our “rivals” who are in the Multimedia Sports Reporting class (TV people). We are slated to work together, combining our “talents” from print to TV and vice versa. The breaking up into groups didn’t equally workout however. Since the print class had far more students, we were asked to pair up with a pair of the TV students. One group, the group I’m in, has no TV students! I guess that’s the way the world works sometimes. And I’m okay with it.
No comments:
Post a Comment