EOTO #2 Reaction

 EOTO #2 Reaction

In class while watching EOTO presentations the one presentation that really caught my attention was the presentation about crime reporting. This stuck out to me because as a kid I always wanted to be a detective and I would go around my house with my brother pretending to solve a "crime" and we would always report back to my parents and tell them what "crime" we found and pretty much gave them a full report. 

Crime reporting in journalism is when a journalist goes out to report on a crime that has just happened. Crime reporting consists of printed or broadcast journalistic pieces of  containing detailed information about a certain criminal activity. Crime journalism started in the 1920s mainly and further developed into what we know as the UCR which stands for uniform crime reporting.

The main crimes a crime journalist covered in the 1920s was mainly, bank robbery, kidnapping, auto theft and drug trafficking. People want to read about crime like this so they are aware of whats currently happening in the world that may be around them. 

The main very important duty of a crime reporter is to gather all the facts, you must have all the facts to successfully create a true story. American newspaperman Joesph Pulitzer was very picky on crime reporting, he always implied his reporters to provide as many details they can possible to give the writer more room to work around while cresting a story. 

Crime reporting in journalism has been around since the early days of journalism and it remains an important part of the news today. It provides a vital service to the public by keeping them informed about crime in their area and helping to hold criminals accountable.

Overall, I enjoyed the EOTO presentations and have truly learned a lot from them and have learned that theres so many different ways you could go with choosing a career in journalism, I never knew that much about crime reporting until I watched this presentation and am happy it gave me a different perspective on choosing what I want to be. 

EOTO #2 Sports Journalism

Sports Journalism

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What is Sports Journalism?

Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions. 

Timeline

Sports journalism began during the early 1820s and continuing through the1830s with specialized sports magazines covering primarily horse racing and boxing. At this time a first full length story was put into the New York Evening post about boxing.  

Sports began to grow at a quicker pace during 1850 because of the introduction of baseball and the new interest in team sports in general. Also at this time more publications started recording sports events in their papers. 

In 1870 Joesph Pulitzer bought the New York World and was the first to hire a sports editor in 1883, and now there were separate departments set up for sports in newspapers.

Joesph Pulitzer

1890 was the big turning point for sports journalism due to the introduction of more sports and the rise of basketball.  

Many publications copied Joesph Pulitzer and by 1892 every large publication had a sports editor. 

In 1914 sports was written and spread in circulation and the job of a sports editor was now considered an actual job. 

In 1930 was the first time newspapers hired executive sports editors to oversee all content produced by the newspaper. 

Sports cartoons became a big part of the sports page in 1940 with Willard Mulin of the New York World telegram.

In 1945 the creation of the Associated Press sports wire which helped put sports into the national scope and at this time sports became worthy of being front page news. 

Front page sports news

    The biggest effect on sports journalism was the         invention of the television in 1950. Baseball and  football saw a large increase in sports coverage in the television industry and sports writers were faced to adapt.

In 1970 radio shows and TV stations such as ESPN changed the landscape of sports media from weekly to daily newspaper reports to 24-hour news cycles. 

The first Super bowl broadcast happened in 2000 where it was the first ever Super bowl to be broadcasted in the United States by two separate networks CBS and NBC. 

Famous Sports Journalists

 Grantland Rice was an early inventor for sports journalism best known for his work covering college football teams starting in 1925. He covered exceptional athletes like Babe Ruth and Bobby Jones, helping make them into American icons. He has a scholarship given in his name by Vanderbilt University for freshman intending to become sports writers. 

Grantland Rice

 Harry Chadwick was known as the father of baseball. He was one of the first promotes of sports journalism and helped start the National Baseball Club. 

Harry Chadwick

Leonard Koppett was an established and influential sports writer who wrote for the Sporting News, New York Times and the New York Post. His best work was in baseball. He received the Curt Gowdy media award by the basketball Hall of Fame in 1994.

 

Leonard Koppett

The Front Page Reaction

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I enjoyed watching The Front Page movie because it gave me an up-close perspective on how journalists reporters used to get their news to produce for the world to see back in the day. 

Journalists strive to get information for their stories and articles but as seen in The Front Page journalists did not always strive to get accurate information, but rather creating a story that people will pay for over and over again.

In the movie you can see all of these men that are journalist reporters and they are trying to create headlines for a story about a convict Earl Williams. While creating this story these men are exaggerating the story and headline creating false information. These journalists love to exaggerate stories in this movie, to create a narrative that is worth reading and buying for an audience rather than giving the straight up facts. 

The idea of exaggerating a story to block the truth for more money and publicity does not settle right with me. 

Exaggerating a story or headline defiantly has its pros and cons when producing a story, but people deserve the truth when it comes to news, because people rely on the news as a source of information that they rely on to be accurate and producing exaggerated stories can confuse people in the long run.

In the movie Earl Williams is viewed as a crazy person and Mollie Malloy is only viewed at as a hooker. The journalists in the movie then create stories about Earl and Mollie that produce false information about the two people, that people do not know is false. The reporters do this to keep the viewers coming back for more, which makes the news publication a lot of money. 

Both Earl and Mollie are misunderstood, reporters did not care to get either Earl or Mollies side in the situation happening throughout the movie. Reporters only care for themselves and their career at the end of the day, so they will do anything for a story even putting peoples lives at risk. In the movie Mollie creates a distraction so that Earl doesn't get caught so she decides to jump out of a window risking her life which the reporters simply do not care about. 

Another thing that I found interesting in this movie was how the journalist reporters were all men. Not to say I was surprised but I would think there would be at least one woman reporter. This movie was based in 1928 in Chicago. Women just became able to voice their opinions and got the right to vote in 1920 so it didn't surprise me that there wasn't any female journalists but it surprised me that the job difference between male and female at this time was very different from one another. 

The main character Christy was getting ready to get out of town to marry Peggy. Peggy is a singer at the teacher where she and the audience read lyrics together and sing almost like church but not. I thought this was different because during this time women usually stayed at home to cook and clean for their husband and kids. Peggy is viewed as this beautiful woman that is too good for Christy but some how Christy manages to end up with her after-all. 

Peggy Singing

Another role of a female job I saw in this movie was Myrtle's job. Myrtle worked at the city news bureau of Chicago with the male journalists. Myrtle in the movie was considered a janitor or personal assistant to these men in my opinion. Myrtle got the reporters what ever they wanted when they wanted it all day long, which obviously wouldn't be allowed at any jobs today but this was the reality of what a females job looked like in 1928. 

Overall this movie honestly was such a good movie, I usually do not watch these types of movies but this one really had me pulled in. Not only was it a good movie but it gave me a view on what journalism was like in the 1920s and I really enjoyed it.