Bob Ford: Newspaper Sports Reporters Should be Writing About "What Does It Mean?"

"IF YOU THINK you know your path in life, you're wrong," said Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist Bob Ford.He said that he had six majors (art history, psychology, English and a few others) while studying at the University of Maryland. He landed on journalism after learning there were academic advisors, and one suggested that path.He graduated and got a job at the Easton Star Democrat on Maryland's Eastern shore. His first story was a duck calling...

Talking Sports With Bob Ford.

ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist Bob Ford (above) will visit class. He'll talk about just about anything - from his start in journalism to his stint covering the Sixers, from landing the sweet gig of opining about the day's sporting events to whether the Phillies should bring Jimmy Rollins back next year.But since many of you are interested in becoming sports journalists, let's think proactively. What's the next step...

Does Good Video Make It Newsworthy?

THERE WAS A dramatic rescue of a motorcyclist trapped under a car as his bike went up in flames.A local television station has raw video of the rescue (see here). The video has since run on newscasts around the world.Is it a big story? Or is it simply dramatic video? What newsworthiness criteria qualify this story as an international phenome...

The Journalists Messed Up Journalism?

A WRITER AT the Daily Californian, the student paper at the University of California, Berkeley, says that the problems currently facing journalism are the responsibility of journalists."It’s our fault," he writes. "Our job was to report the news, and we did that. But we got complacent, and we stopped evolving, and soon the concept of a news article became far removed from what you, as a person, valued."He argues that journalists have focused on drawing...

Should The Media Have Access to Police Scanners?

Police in Jacksonville, Florida have removed police scanners from local newsrooms. The police department previously rented the scanners to the news outlets (radio, TV and newspapers) but now the police are refusing access. The story above is from July, when the threat of losing the scanners became known. News outlets have relied upon scanners for years as a why of monitoring breaking activity in their regions. Some news outlets believe the police are trying to control the information that news outlets can obtain. The police say that they are collecting...

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