Journey to Big East

Today the Sports Journalism Group departed for Connecticut where they will be visiting NBC Studios and Versus Studio. Tomorrow the group will be traveling to New York City to see the Big East Tournament, which takes place from March 12-15.

Although the tournament continues on through Saturday, the group will only be in New York City for Wednesday and Thursday, meaning the group will only be covering the tournament through the quarterfinals.

While at the Big East Tournament, students will be taking pictures and writing breakdowns or articles on the games that they watch, in order to experience what it is like to be a sports journalist.

All of the articles that the students will write about the games at the Big East Tournament can be found on the Sports Journalism Blog.

The Game of Writing begins for Sports Journalism

Sports Journalism started their Winterim activities yesterday (Monday) with an introduction to the Winterim. Today, students in Sports Journalism will beginning writing articles in order to practice the journalist aspect of the Winterim program.

The articles that students write during Winterim can be found on the Sports Journalism Blog.

This afternoon students will be visiting the Boston Globe in order to see the workings of a news company and what professional sports reporters do in their daily work routines.

Students in the Sports Journalism will be attending three professional sports games this week in order to have a first hand experience of reporting on a live sports game. On Tuesday  Sports Journalism will be attending a Bruins game and on Wednesday they will be going to see the Celtics.

Next week the Sports Journalism group will be heading to New York City in order to report on the Big East Tournament.