Wednesday, August 17, 2005
The sports journalism world is always changing, and as sports editors we will do our best to change with it.
Several sports stories are now viewed to be as important as breaking news.
When Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens got sent home from training camp, the media was so intrigued by the story that helicopters flew above his house and took pictures of him shooting a basketball in his backyard. Reporters then asked him questions about his training camp departure as he was doing sit-ups in his driveway.
A story like this could be reported in several different ways. It craves an editorial, it also calls for pictures and video but the sheer news factor is also important.
Here at the Kansan we realize this, and with what happened last year in the world of Kansas athletics we understand that the oppurtunity to cover this type of event could occur this semester.
Though we weren’t on campus this summer, we paid close attention to the events outside the Moon Bar, and the self-imposed probation the University issued.
We learned from the mistakes other media outlets made, and hope to avoid them ourselves.
We will try to present both sides of every issue and give readers all the facts necessary to make their own judgements in every game recap, feature or hard-hitting sports news story we publish.
But we also want to entertain.
Throughout the sports section, readers should expect to see the same great sports stories the Kansan has always offered, but with the addition of fun graphics that constantly accompany the stories, columns and predictions.
We will add in several new elements to the sports section, such as Monday Power Football Rankings of the Big 12 Conference. Another addition will be columns that feature two columnists duking it out PTI style.
We plan to also make editor, reporter and guest picks Fridays before college football games. Our staff is working to incporporate polls for readers online at kansan.com for football picks as well.
Hopefully, readers will clearly see the line between sports news and columns and lighter-sided reports.
Feel free to disagree with any sports editorial we print, but the facts we present should be indisputable.
Robinett is an Austin, Texas, senior in journalism. Sorrentino is a Plano, Texas, senior in journalism. They are Kansan sports editor and associate sports editor.
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