Try different things | Fans with Laptops: The Sports writing and media

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Fans with Laptops: The Sports Writing, Podcasting and Video Course

First Section

Getting Started (4:38)
Why sport matters to you (2:49)
The players (6:14)

At the game

The pressbox (11:20)
Game day (7:57)

The story of sport

Sport is narrative (6:11)
Types of pieces (10:16)
Pieces to stories (0:40)
New writer mistakes

The Afghan Garfield

Afghan original (1:00)
Afghan Redux (2:08)
Afghan Garfield (1:54)

Searching for truth

News (3:41)
Data (3:28)
Interviews (7:32)

Breaking in

Specialisation (3:25)
Try different things (3:26)
Find your group (1:17)
Pitching (4:11)
Contacts (4:30)

How to find stories

Finding stories (5:19)

Features - planning

Read Greg Norman Piece (0:42)
Idea, mindmaps & research (6:02)

Features - writing

Actually Writing (4:28)

Features - editing

Editing (5:11)
First Lines (4:19)
Shooting the shark (1:30)
Structure (3:05)
Giant lizard theory (5:44)

The final 100 words

Final 100 words (1:35)

Multi Media Journalism and Freelancing

Intro (2:38)

Blogging

Emailers (10:56)

Podcasts

Narrative podcast (5:26)
Interview podcast (5:19)
Chat podcast (2:52)

Video

Videos and YouTube (5:26)
Video Essays (3:24)
Tik Tok/Reels/Shorts (2:04)

Multi media

Story and format (4:36)
Content plan (2:39)

Business

Income (3:25)
Self promotion (4:12)

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