Chapter 7 Test Review

Sports News

• An objective news article reporting on something related to sports

• Summarizes a game, or sometimes a series of games

• Profiles people (players, coaches, fans, mascots, etc.)

Gamers

• Profiles people (players, coaches, fans, mascots, etc.)

• Summarizes a game, or sometimes a series of games

• An objective news article reporting on something related to sports

Features

• Profiles people (players, coaches, fans, mascots, etc.)

• Summarizes a game, or sometimes a series of games

• An objective news article reporting on something related to sports

Which category of writing is nearly identical to writing a regular news story, with one obvious difference being that the topic is related to sports?

• Sports News

• Gamers

• Tweets

• Analogs

When writing sports news, make sure your lede does not ___________ and ___________ the issue.

• sensationalize and traumatize

• sensationalize and trivialize

• trivialize and vitalize

• trivialize and traumatize

The basic formula or a gamer piece follows an inverted pyramid style of writing.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Maybe

When it comes to writing sports pieces and dealing with stats, the safest and most accurate plan is to note what is happening on your own and keep your own scorebook.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Maybe

Sports features are just like ________ but based on or around something related to sports.

• news features

• gamers

• inverted pyramids

• Photojournalism

A great way to find feature topics is to open your observation skills and?

• talk to players and coaches

• hang around practices and observe what players do

• go to a game early and watch warm-up routines

• Follow athletes on Twitter to see what they are talking about

• All of the above

One of the biggest challenges new sports writers face - especially at the high school level - is simply reporting what happened instead of promoting the home team.

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Sometimes

• Depends on the weather