Becoming A Sports Reporter

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Imagine that you are fourteen years old exploring channels on the television; nothing really catches your eye but the sport stations, and this fascinates you so much that you start thinking “I want to do this whenever I get older,” this exact thing happened to me. Working in the field as a sport reporter has always been a dream of mine ever since I was young; watching professional analyst talk about the trending topics in sports on ESPN and reading local reporter’s sport articles in the newspaper. Paying attention to this at such a young age has helped me learn so much on this occupation, for example, I knew about the mass amount of traveling a sport reporter has to do. Based on this knowledge, I was absolutely thrilled to do a report on sports …show more content…

I asked her, “How old was she whenever realized you wanted to be a sports reporter?” Melissa responded, “I didn't realize I wanted to be a sports reporter until I was almost 22. I didn't even know I would enjoy writing about sports until I gave it a try in my junior year of college while working for The Reflector, our newspaper at Mississippi State.” Seeing that she said she worked on newspapers for Mississippi State was very surprising to me, so I asked her, “What do you think is the best 4 year college for journalism or mass communication?” She said, “In the state of Mississippi, we are very lucky to have three great universities for journalism and mass communication. I received my bachelor's degree from Mississippi State and had a great experience there working for their student newspaper. Then I received my master's from Ole Miss and was able to see why their journalism program is spoken highly of.” Her answer to that question really shocked me because I thought she would say Mississippi State considering she went there. The final question I asked her was, “What is the thing you love the most about this job?” She responded, “What I love most about this job is being able to capture lasting memories. Kids will only play high school sports for a limited amount of time, and thanks to my stories and photos, they can look back on them years later and remember some of the …show more content…

Learning this made me realize how hard of workings people in this occupation are. From my works cited page, I learned that the websites most be italicized and to always add the dates. Finally, I learned that whenever someone is working on a paper, procrastination is never a good thing

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