In The Essentials of Sports Reporting and Writing, authors Scott Reinardy and Wayne Wanta employ their own professional experience as sports writers and editors to give students a useful and practical view of the sports writing profession. The text is divided into readily digestible sections, covering essential topics such as types of stories; background and preparation; interviewing; the beginning stages of writing; and conclusion writing.

Through real-life examples, readers learn the in-and-outs of writing columns, advances and follows, sidebars, profiles, and...

In The Essentials of Sports Reporting and Writing, authors Scott Reinardy and Wayne Wanta employ their own professional experience as sports writers and editors to give students a useful and practical view of the sports writing profession. The text is divided into readily digestible sections, covering essential topics such as types of stories; background and preparation; interviewing; the beginning stages of writing; and conclusion writing.

Through real-life examples, readers learn the in-and-outs of writing columns, advances and follows, sidebars, profiles, and...

Journalism s Lost Generation discusses how the changes in the industry not

only indicate a newspaper crisis, but also a crisis of local communities, a loss

of professional skills, and a void in institutional and community knowledge

emanating from newsrooms. Reinardy s thorough and opinionated take on

the transition seen in newspaper newsrooms is coupled with an examination

of the journalism industry today. This text also provides a broad view of the

newspaper journalism being produced today, and those who are attempting

to produce it."