This document provides guidance for sports reporting. It discusses covering a variety of sports events, including local and international competitions of all sizes. Reporters should focus on the outcome, exciting parts, and any incidents or accidents from an event. When writing an article, the lead should mention the most interesting thing that happened first without including obvious facts or dates. Reporters are advised to understand the game, get to know the teams and players, take thorough notes, and ask insightful questions in interviews. The goal is to provide readers with new and informative coverage of sports.

1. SPORTS REPORTING
Presentation by: Sarbesh Dhungana

4. What is sports?
• All forms of physical activity that contribute to
physical fitness, mental well-being and social
interaction.

6. Sports Reporting
• To cover sports events
• Local
• International
• Big or small, all should be covered, if news
worthy.
• Any incidents or accidents that is related to
sports.
• Or any subject that has relevance to sports.

8. Covering Events
• Events that occurred during the game
• Outcome
• Important and exciting parts

9. What to cover?
• Try covering all teams at least once in good
detail.
• Cover as much as one can about issue in sport
events.
• Consider all successes
• In a feature, cover outstanding players and/or
achievements

10. • Leave some space for off campus sports.
Students want to know about the non
sponsored school sports and the local
professional teams too!
• Make sure it’s newsworthy and Timely
• The why and how rather than the who and
what. Because reader remember them.

11. Writing sports lead
• Most stories have events that occur in order.
It should be that the most interesting or
exciting thing that happened during the event
is mentioned first.
• Basic inverted pyramid, but other can be used
as well

12. What to avoid in a lead
• Date of the game
• The name of the team
• Obvious facts
• Any opinion
• Non-news worthy facts

13. What to cover
• All the events
• New information- more facts the better
• Notes of key players, injuries, strengths and
weakness.
• Information about both teams
• Knowing names.

14. Reporter guidelines
• Understand the game.
• Get to know everyone involved.
• Watch, take notes and observe everything
about the game.
• Catch up on the history of the team. Know
what they’ve done in past years.

15. Interviews
• Understand what you are interviewing about.
Asking “what do you do?” may offend
someone you’re talking to.
• Know who your interviewee is and their name
before you talk to them.
• Have an idea of who you want to interview
during the game, then take notes specifically
about them to ask them questions about it
later.

16. Questions to ask
• What challenges has the team faced?
• What made the season exciting?
• Who were the most challenging opponents?
• What were the strengths and weaknesses of the
team?
• What are the future goals of this team?
• What were the
accomplishments/disappointments of the year?

17. Thank you 