Journalism Chapter 12

featurize

To make a hard-news story into a feature by injecting anecdotes, background, and similar information.

components

1. Last years scores 2. Condition of athletes 3. Key athletes/starting lineups 4. Comparison of teams/individual records 5. Significance of event in terms of records/future events. 6. Comments on styles of plays 7. Any history of rivalries between the team are __________ of an effective pregame story

postgame story

A follow-up story about a sports event. Such stories are nearly always featurized.

game story

A sports story recounting the play-by-play activities of a game.

pregame story

An advance story about a sports event, which may include background and other information about both teams generally featurized.

pregame - advance postgame- follow-up game- event

How do pregame, postgame, and game stories differ?

slanguage

In sports writing, trite expressions stemming from the jargon of sports.

detailed accurate notes

Keeping _____ _______ ________ is the most important job of a sportswriter covering a game.

examples

Pigskin and local gridiron are _____ of "slanguage"/"trite expressions"

gathering information opposing

Sportswriters prepare to write by ___________ _________ about _______ teams.

game

________ stories should avoid being featurized.

Slanguage overused trite expressions

________________ is one of the few major causes of bad sports writing because it tends to be ________ and becomes ___________ _________________.