CHAPTER 2A

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]
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• 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
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COACH

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03 04
PARENTS

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ATHLETE CAMARADERIE
AMONG
REPORTERS
CULTIVATING AND MAINTAINING
SOURCES
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1. MAKE YOURSELF KNOWN :
Familiarity breeds rapport.
• Reporters on beats or those
who deal with the same
sources repeatedly should visit
and chat even when they
aren’t seeking information.
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2. BE PLEASANT : Cheer up.
• It should be obvious that
cooperation will go to the
cheerful
person more often than to
the sour individual. 03
3. BE CONSIDERATE: Newspaper deadlines
come at inconvenient times.
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

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5. DON’T IGNORE
04 UNDERLINGS

• Even though your most

important source is a high-
level official, lesser lights can
be of great help.
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4. BECOME A GOOD LISTENER:
• It’s better to let your sources
do most of the talking than to
bore them
your won unsolicited 6. BE STRAIGHT FORWARD
observations.
• Never compromise your ethical or
professional standards. You expect sources
to be truthful with you, they will expect the
same of you. Deception is a sure way to
end the relationship.
CHAPTER 2B
TRADITIONAL SPORT
REPORTING
(THE INTERVIEW)
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A Research the
person you’re
interviewing
5 JOURNALIST
TECHNIQUES
FOR
Scope out a
B
solid location for
ahead of time EFFECTIVE the interview

INTERVIEWS

Write down the

questions you
plan to ask in
advance
E
Transcribe your
recording to make
Use a recording
device so you
can be fully
engaged in the
conversation
sure you don’t
miss anything
good
A Depth
interviews Telephone
interviews
B
TYPES OF
SPORTS
INTERVIEW
Question – and -
Background
answer
interviews
interview
A Direct Quotations
• Exactly what
was stated by
the source: in
B
Indirect quotations
• Written without the
quotations mark.
with only minor
phrases or
deviations from the
sentences
original statement

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

• Observation is useful when

you, as the journalist, want
to get direct information.
5. Taking pictures as part of
• Observation is definitely an the observations
exceptional tool for
journalists, and one they
should consider when
setting out to write any
story.
4. Prepare the recording sheet.
 THANK YOU !

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