Indiana University

National Sports Journalism Center

Based at IUPUI with programs at IU Bloomington SPORTSJOURNALISM.org

Our Mission

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Located on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis, the National Sports Journalism Center is near collegiate sports as well as the headquarters of several national sports organizations.
The Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center is the most comprehensive institute for the study of sports journalism in America.

Through its academic courses and other programs, the center provides top quality and cutting-edge instruction on sports media for everyone from high school students to veteran professionals.

Goals:

  • The center will provide a forum for discussion of the major sports media issues of the day through this Web site and a speaker series that includes nationally known professional journalists, athletes, academics and administrators.
  • The center will engage in research projects that illuminate trends and issues in the sports media world.

Learn more:
  • Contact National Sports Journalism Center Director Tim Franklin by e-mail or by phone or mail:

    Indiana University
    School of Journalism
    535 W. Michigan Street
    Indianapolis, IN 46202
    IUPUI phone: (317) 278-5335
    IU Bloomington phone: (812) 855-2949





Our Voices

Eric Deggans
on Sports Broadcasting
Eric Deggans

Changing Lanes creator takes difficult, uncharted path

Aug 31, 2010

It’s tough enough to challenge prejudice when you’re just looking at one side of the equation. So what can you say about a guy who has chosen to bite off both sides of the problem in tackling NASCAR’s historic focus on white guys driving cars? Already a pioneering African American in the sport, Max Siegel is attempting the equivalent of walking while chewing gum as you execute an Olympic-level backflip off a balance beam perched on top of Mount Everest. He’s going to put NASCAR on Black Entertainment Television.

Jason Fry
on Sports New Media
Jason Fry

The Curious Case of Jerod Morris and Damien Cox

Aug 30, 2010

Two summers, two columns, two different results. Last summer, Jerod Morris of Midwest Sports Fans wrote a blog post about Raul Ibanez of the Philadelphia Phillies and the excellent season he was putting together. Responding to jibes from a fellow fantasy-baseball GM, Morris tried to prove it was unfair to speculate that Ibanez’s numbers were the result of performance-enhancing drugs. He reluctantly concluded that he couldn’t single out other factors that would clear Ibanez of suspicion, and blamed Major League Baseball for the fact that such suspicions are now routine.

Dave Kindred
on Sports Writing
Dave Kindred

Building the brand? Or losing one’s freakin’ mind?

Aug 27, 2010

More than once, frightening things have happened to me on the golf course, though I’m hard-pressed to remember a more chilling moment than occurred one morning on the first tee when the producer of the ESPN teevee thing, “Around the Horn,” asked if I’d like to be on the show. This was early in the long, successful, rollicking life of ATH. My pal Woody Paige was in the rudimentary stages of developing his ATH persona, which he would come to define memorably: “I am not an idiot, I just play one on TV.”

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Aug 10, 2010Dan Le Batard: Annoying media causing less and less candor among today’s athletes

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