You have the choice between an all-expense paid trip to Fiji on business-class golfer Vijay Singh to interview just days after a U.S. PGA Tour record, or cover the opening laps of the Malaysian Open badminton tournament.
What would any normal person? Unfortunately, journalists are far from the norm - in the hour they work and how they write their perspective on who is a star and who is not.
That is why sports writers will tell you it's not about the name, it istell about the story they.
This is the second time I refused, went to Fiji Islands Travel, namely, the first a few years ago, when Singh at his home to start work on his own golf course there.
Was it an easy decision? Yes it was. Reuters asked me a week before if I was okay for the badminton, and I said I was.
Was it painful? Extreme. Coup plots aside, Fiji Sun, sea and sand desert island of choice when it comes to a country after washingShipwreck.
But the appeal of sports journalism comes from the unusual, which I will explain later. This is how all sports journalists learn to write. Or should at least do that.
The Fiji offer came from Asian Golf Monthly, for which I write a column entitled "bunker blues".
The boss told me that was only because Singh, Fiji travel to a victory in Kapalua, Hawaii on Sunday its 30th Career titles and 18 since turning 40 - Sam Snead edges before decided to takefor post-40 victories.
As a journalist, you've got to be professional about these things (he says as he cries in his morning tea, stand out in a conical glass with a cherry and a mini-umbrella, only to him what he is missing recall comes in).
I write in my ebook "Secrets, as top professionals to write news" is that it does not matter whether you're Tiger Woods or your local interview under-15s bowling player, because everyone has a story to tell.
How I learned to writeand grew as a journalist, this concept has to be strengthened, especially if you, like some of the bland-known sports "stars" will be realized.
However, this is Fiji we're talking about, eh? I will someday, God willing.
Sports News will not hit as hard as a restricted narrow News Items In the words that you use, and what you can relate to.
In sport, can you get into the life of the person. Discover the human side.
When the U.S. bombed in IraqThe end of 1998, I was press at the Asian Games in Bangkok, covering for Agence France.
I went into the athletes village this morning and found a Kuwaiti runner who said he was taken prisoner by the army of Saddam Hussein before the first Gulf War and subsequently liberated by U.S. troops.
His sports, his results, his training regime were just stories on this page its history.
When writing sports stories they have so much more than beats as you have feelings, ambition, power,Victims and many other aspects of the drama to your writing.
Talk to athletes, ask them how they got there, what they have last night, ate what they have to have any problems to the venue. Ask them about their lives.
You will see how much it can enrich your items. Journalism is about people, and sport can tell their stories better than any other writing genre, in my humble opinion.
Regardless of whether it was in Malaysia to top badminton player Lee Chong Wei or Vijay Singh, itare both the same on the other side of my notebook. Their star status depends on the story they have to tell.
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