Wanna Be A Sports Reporter? Law School Would Be A Start …
LA Observed reprints an internal Los Angeles Times ‘help wanted’ memo that shows that some unexpected skills are required to cover 21st century sports:
Reporter–Sports
Sports has an opening for a general assignment reporter to work mainly with our enterprise, projects and investigative team.
This reporter, who must know and like sports, will generate stories that are above and away from routine coverage of individual games or specific teams. This requires a self-starter who knows how to dig in records and deal with documents, the courts and the legal system; such knowledge and experience likely will have been acquired via a background in hard news reporting. (emphasis ours)
That, or a chemistry or pharmacology background …
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March 17th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Familiarity with rap music a definite plus.