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2. Professionalism

Introduction

Professionalism will be an ongoing theme throughout the semester. We’ll consider the hallmarks of good writing and communication, discuss potential career directions, and build a portfolio both for your own career and also for class requirements in the certificate and in your major.

Learning objectives: During this section, students will...

Learn about finding professional opportunities such as internships, freelancing, and the sports media capstone

Learn professional standards for writing and using style correctly

Discuss the best writing and story production available

Discuss career options with recent alumni in fields throughout sports media

Assignment specifics

When we have career panels, you’ll see a homework assignment to come up with three questions for our panel. You should look up our panelists on LinkedIn and social media to see what they’ve done, what they post, and get to know them a little bit. Your questions can be about anything about their time at UGA, how they got to where they are now, or what their jobs now consist of. You don’t need to write three questions for each panelist, but three questions total for as many or as few panelists as you wish.

Readings and discussion

We had hoped to have more days to take a step back and talk about issues, but we had too much to cover. On April 19, however, we will do just that.

Dwayne Haskins tragedy

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Read/listen to the following:

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Florio⁠

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Dwayne Haskins, Tiger Woods’ return, and the Lakers on Hang Up and Listen.⁠

(just the first segment)

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Palm Beach Post story on media coverage of Haskins⁠

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‘Virtue signalling’, a slur meant to imply moral grandstanding that might not be all bad⁠

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Access

Read the following:

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Poynter on NBA locker room policy⁠

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Indianapolis Business Journal story on access⁠

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Kevin Durant Is Learning to Let Go - The Ringer⁠

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Buffalo Sabres and access⁠

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Assignment

Pick one of these issues and write a short post answering one of the following questions in the designated channel:

02professionalism3_haskins for your instructor: After listening to the podcast segment and reading Pro Football Focus and the Palm Beach Post article, along with the post on virtue-signaling, do you think the authors are virtue-signaling by calling out Schefter and Brandt for their comments or are they making valuable points? Why or why not?

02professionalism3_access for your instructor: Think of the athletes you follow most closely. Where do you get most of your news about them—from social media they produce, from team broadcasts and shows with media partners (think College GameDay or NBA on TNT), or independent journalists? Do you feel like you have good information about their performance as athletes and their lives as public figure, or what are you missing?

Portfolio

Assignment 1:

Purchase a domain and set up WordPress OR set up a free site at

wordpress.com.⁠

Post the URL in the 02professionalism2_portfolios channel for your instructor. If you don’t have a LinkedIn account, go ahead and set that up, too. ALSO: If you already have a portfolio for another class, use that one and incorporate elements from this class into it.

Review

these portfolio requirements⁠

. They were written for JOUR 3190, but will apply to your portfolio for this class and all sports media classes, but ignore the checkpoints.

Assignment 2: Put together a Google doc with the following elements, and post a link the 02professionalism2_portfolio channel for your instructor.

The dominant image you intend to use

The personal narrative for your “About” page

Your resume

Assignment 3:

1. On your WordPress domain, create your homepage with tagline copy, your navigation bar or menu, your “About” page, your resume, and links to your social media. Comment on your post in the 02professionalism2_portfolios channel for your instructor to let him know it’s ready.

2. Read Elizabeth Spiers’ posts on branding for journalists:

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Do journalists need to be brands?⁠

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Every professional writer needs a brand⁠

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Assignment 4: Final revisions to your portfolio, including work samples from this class and elsewhere and design changes as discussed. Comment on your post in the 02professionalism2_portfolios channel for your instructor to let him know it’s ready.

Classes and homework 2

Classes and homework 2

Day

Date

Time

Type

Description

Thursday

1/20/2022

Normal class time

Class

Internships, clips, experiential learning, basics of news/grammar/style

Monday

2/7/2022

11:59 PM

Homework

Prepare three questions for our panel of journalists about their careers, stories they’ve covered, etc. Add them to the doc in 02professionalism1_qs for your instructor.

Tuesday

2/8/2022

Normal class time

Class

Career panel 1: sports journalists

Monday

2/21/2022

11:59 PM

Homework

Prepare three questions for our panel of comms people about their careers, job content, etc. Add them to the doc in 02professionalism1_qs for your instructor.

Tuesday

2/22/2022

Normal class time

Class

Career panel 2: Comms/social

Monday

3/14/2022

11:59 PM

Homework

Prepare three questions for our panel of broadcast talent about their careers, stories they’ve covered, etc. Add them to the doc in 02professionalism1_qs for your instructor.

Tuesday

3/15/2022

Normal class time

Class

Career panel 3: Broadcast talent

Monday

3/28/2022

11:59 PM

Homework

Prepare three questions for our panel of broadcast production folks about their careers, what they do now, etc. Add them to the doc in 02professionalism1_qs for your instructor.

Tuesday

3/29/2022

Normal class time

Class

Career panel 4: Broadcast production

Thursday

3/31/2022

Normal class time

Class

Readings and discussion

Tuesday

4/5/2022

Normal class time

Class

No class: instructor meetings

Monday

4/18/2022

11:59 PM

Homework

Readings on access and Dwayne Haskins and discussion post

Tuesday

4/19/2022

Normal class time

Class

Readings and discussion

Wednesday

4/20/2022

11:59 PM

Homework

Portfolio assignment 1

Thursday

4/21/2022

Normal class time

Class

Portfolio discussion

Monday

4/25/2022

11:59 PM

Homework

Portfolio assignment 2

Tuesday

4/26/2022

Normal class time

Class

Portfolio production

Wednesday

4/27/2022

11:59 PM

Homework

Portfolio assignment 3

Thursday

4/28/2022

Normal class time

Class

Portfolio presentations

Tuesday

5/3/2022

Normal class time

Class

Portfolio presentations

Wednesday

5/4/2022

11:59 PM

Assignment

Assignment 4 (final portfolio complete)

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