Sports

The final two pages of every edition of Activate are dedicated to the sports section. The back page is often seen as ‘the other front page‘, as it is equally significant and sometimes even more popular!

Writing sports articles provide an interesting challenge for journalists as they sometimes take the form of a hard news story and sometimes develop into more of a feature. As a sports writer, you are required to both report events, and analyse related current sporting affairs. Activate sports reporters regularly interview sources, which enables you to hone another crucial journalistic skills.

As a member of this team, you will be required to attend a weekly meeting, regularly check your e-mail for updates and be able to consistently make deadlines.

In this field of journalism, a certain amount of knowledge is required, and can be an asset when adding insight into the sport being covered. Local sport covers the majority of the content alothugh there is still a place for major international sporting news. Sports reporters are knowledgeable, informed and generally outgoing people. If you have writing talent, are adept with sporting knowledge and are hard working, then this is the section for you.