Sports media

for my final presentation and paper for Ethics in Sports Media was USA Today and ForTheWin’s sports journalist, Nina Mandell. I came across one of Mandell’s articles on ForTheWin and admired her openness to communication with the public. I felt confident in receiving a response from Mandell and decided to email her requesting for a phone interview. Within just a few hours I heard back from her and she was ecstatic to hear I am a student of the Sports Illustrated veteran, Lars Anderson.…

of mine sent me an email about an internship at a sports media company called Mandalay Sports Media. After doing some research about the company and its background I was excited and eager to find out about the opportunity. I received an email address and sent an email about my interest. A few weeks later I was told I would be able to join the Mandalay team as a summer intern. Sports has always been my passion and learning a new facet about the sports world interested me greatly. Newhouse was a…

professional abilities. While the coverage of women’s sport across the world is already not equal to that of male’s .Often the publicity focuses on everything else but their sporting abilities. Sports became the most interesting area of media coverage among different stream. As it has got its most important status in the world’s media to popularize the newspaper, there is a distinct lack of comparative research on the media coverage of Sports. Sports are an important component of our life as it…

Women in Sports Even though women have gained wide acceptance in the workplace and politics as an equal with men, the field in sports journalism and women’s athletics lacks modern gender equality due to gender discrimination against women. This essay explores the many issues women in sports faces today. Before the 1960s, women in the sports department were rarely seen in the world because sports writing has always been a male-dominated profession. The idea of a women writing about sports was…

Sport in Western culture, how can throwing a football around a field define cultural values, well remarkably by either acknowledging its significance or by holding it in distain you have entered a segmented culture dedicated to sharing in and expressing those opinions. One such example of this polarization is the flourishing of sports fans personal blogs, which produces opportunities to built and participate in the media they are using. (McCarthy, 2013:422). This active participation in media,…

In sport today I believe women are treated in an unfair way to their male counterparts. Sport is controlled by the media in this century and women are looked at as sexual objects rather than for their talent like men are. The women are also then expected to wear skimpy clothing not because it’s better for the sport but because of marketing. Professional female athletes are seen as inferior to their male counterparts and therefore don’t get as much media coverage. Women athletes play the exact…

The social construct of youth and high school sports leads to unrealistic expectations on the athlete, parents should never push a child to participate more than they are comfortable because it can lead to depression, physical injury, and sports burnout. Many children starting from a young age are pushed by their parents to participate in sports. According to Shugart (2011), obesity is not as large as an epidemic as the media portrays to the public, and is in fact the latest obesity analysis…

“fanatical” about sports. Going to a sports event, watching sports on tv, participating in a fanclub, and attending sports conventions are among the favorite pastimes of a Super Fanatic. These fans are most likely to enjoy sports like soccer or racing, though they follow every sport, except for football. Super Fanatics follow their favorite teams and players via social networks and most likely to spend money via digital media. Strategy: Largely motivated by pride and tradition, the most…

With doing that not only are they being informed about his life, but the public is also being informed about how and adaptive sport can completely change someone's life. Their intended audience is probably, sports businesses, movie producers, media businesses…

“In what way did organized youth or college sports play a role in your life and your relationship to sports today? How do you think those experiences would be different if you were trying to play sports in a Gilded Age? Why?” I love that we had to compare the Gilded Age to youth or college sports we played in our life and how it affected our life. I don’t think I could handle living in the Gilded age. I am not the type…