NSMA's Top Five
The sportswriter’s job: Is it harder in today’s digital age than it was when print was our key news source?
From Will Whitmore at Sports Broadcast Journal
NHL set to resume; League and NBC get right to the chase for the Stanley Cup in Edmonton and Toronto
From Blake Taub at Sports Broadcast Journal
20-year-old Andrew alumnus Jon Zaghloul making name for himself in sports broadcasting
From Jeff Vorva at Chicago Tribune
How Sports Media Brand Playmaker Has Grown in a Time Without Sports
From Front Office Sports
NBA Voices will call games under bizarre settings most have never faced; 20+ share their mental prep
From Amelia Holland at Sports Broadcast Journal
Covid-19 killed Tuesday’s ASG; Fifty years ago, the game did a 28.5 rating; Last year it did a paltry 5.0
From David J. Halberstam at Sports Broadcast Journal
Coaches/Media Relationships
Join our panel for an hour-long discussion of the relationships between coaches and the media, how they've evolved, how each side can be better about trusting each other, and how they might be affected by COVID-19.
Our panel includes:
- NCAA FB Championship-winning coach Mack Brown of the University of North Carolina, who is a former ESPN commentator as well;
- 2019 NSMA Michigan Sportswriter of the Year, Angelique Chengelis, University of Michigan beat writer for the Detroit News.
All Continuing Education Series seminars are FREE to NSMA members. Anyone else can join FREE on a one-time only basis.
ACC delaying start of all fall sports until at least Sept. 1
from David Hale at ESPN
Christine Brennan: “Sports journalists play a unique role in covering this huge story“
From AIPS Media
LAUSANNE, July 9, 2020 - A handful of questions that only time could answer, has been at the heart of Christine Brennan's speech on the World Sports Journalists Day. The US columnist whose lucid analysis have appeared on USA Today, CNN, ABC News, took the virtual stage at the 1st AIPS World e-Conference on July 2, together with Editors-in-Chief from all over the world.
Brad Pye Jr., first Black sports broadcaster in L.A. and civic leader, dies at 89
From Emmanuel Morgan at the LA Times
ACU broadcaster raising money for Meals on Wheels by playing 100 holes of golf
From Evan Nemec at KTXS 12 ABC