National Sports Journalism Center to operate Student News Bureau at women’s Final Four
Chris Dixon |
March 15, 2011 4:28 p.m.
By Chris Dixon
Graduate Assistant, IU National Sports Journalism Center
A selected group of students in Indiana University’s National Sports Journalism Center will be full-fledged media members at the 2011 Women’s Final Four in Indianapolis early next month.
The sports journalism center, which is based at IUPUI and also has programs in Bloomington, reached an agreement with the NCAA to form a Student News Bureau at the women’s Final Four. The agreement provides students with the chance to produce stories, blogs, photos, and multimedia that will be available to commercial and student publications across the nation.
Students will have the opportunity to write enterprise and feature stories, and get real-world journalism experience on deadline. Credentials will be issued that allow student reporters and photographers to cover games, practices, news conferences and events from April 2 to April 5.
"This represents an incredible opportunity for students in the IU National Sports Journalism Center to cover the sights, sounds and action of a national sporting event,” said Tim Franklin, director of the center and the Louis A. Weil, Jr. endowed chair at the IU School of Journalism. “This is a special and rare opportunity for our students, and I'm grateful that the NCAA is providing this learning opportunity.”
The idea began last year when the NSJC teamed up with the NCAA to form the first Student News Bureau to cover the Men’s Final Four tournament in Indianapolis. More than 70 commercial and student publications received content produced by IU journalists.
Stephanie Kuzydym, an IU journalism student, wrote features and took photographs for the Student News Bureau in 2010, and said the experience was both challenging and fun.
“As a student, we were treated as another part the media,” said Kuzydym. “We were in the same room as the New York Times and on press deadlines just like they were. It was really cool to be surrounded by that.”
Graduate Assistant, IU National Sports Journalism Center
A selected group of students in Indiana University’s National Sports Journalism Center will be full-fledged media members at the 2011 Women’s Final Four in Indianapolis early next month.
The sports journalism center, which is based at IUPUI and also has programs in Bloomington, reached an agreement with the NCAA to form a Student News Bureau at the women’s Final Four. The agreement provides students with the chance to produce stories, blogs, photos, and multimedia that will be available to commercial and student publications across the nation.
Students will have the opportunity to write enterprise and feature stories, and get real-world journalism experience on deadline. Credentials will be issued that allow student reporters and photographers to cover games, practices, news conferences and events from April 2 to April 5.
"This represents an incredible opportunity for students in the IU National Sports Journalism Center to cover the sights, sounds and action of a national sporting event,” said Tim Franklin, director of the center and the Louis A. Weil, Jr. endowed chair at the IU School of Journalism. “This is a special and rare opportunity for our students, and I'm grateful that the NCAA is providing this learning opportunity.”
The idea began last year when the NSJC teamed up with the NCAA to form the first Student News Bureau to cover the Men’s Final Four tournament in Indianapolis. More than 70 commercial and student publications received content produced by IU journalists.
Stephanie Kuzydym, an IU journalism student, wrote features and took photographs for the Student News Bureau in 2010, and said the experience was both challenging and fun.
“As a student, we were treated as another part the media,” said Kuzydym. “We were in the same room as the New York Times and on press deadlines just like they were. It was really cool to be surrounded by that.”
