Prerequisites

• Academic qualification, preferably in media and communication.

Course Description

Sports news has great importance to sports fans who are interested in news of teams and stars and follow up on the results of various international competitions and tournaments that are held throughout the year, so monitoring these sports news requires a great effort from the sports journalist who is keen on gathering, checking, analyzing, arranging and categorizing the news as well to present it as reliable material and then archive it.
How does the process take place, what are its stages, and where does it begin and where do we end? Welcome to the Sports News Monitoring Workshop.

Course Objective

• Knowing the role of a sports journalist and how to monitor news and results, verify their validity and interactions, edit and present them in a professional manner that takes into account professional standards.

Course Outline

• Introduction to the sports journalist and the nature of his daily work.
• The importance of the daily editorial meeting.
• The importance of distributing sports news to journalists according to their specialization.
• Monitoring sports news from international news agencies.
• Types of sports news sources.
• The importance of following the results of world championships, statements, reactions and tweets of teams and players on social media.
• Recognize the importance of sports news sources and deal with them.
• The importance of the network of relations with international sports bodies.
• The importance of verifying the source of sports news.
• Tools for verifying sports news.
• How to verify its validity.
• The importance of editing and presenting sports news in a professional manner that takes into account professional standards.
• The method of writing the television sports news.
• The importance of archiving sports news.

Course Benefits

• A participation certificate from Al Jazeera Media Institute.