Sports news is an important aspect of any news media organization. While the sports department in some newspapers has been mocked as the ‘toy department’ because it does not deal with the more ‘ serious’ topics covered by the newsdesk, it has nevertheless accumulated in importance as sport has become an increasingly wealthy and powerful industry. Today, several organizations specialize exclusively in sports journalism-newspapers such as L’Equipe and Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy and the now defunct Sporting Life in Britain, American magazines such as Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News, all-sports talk radio stations, and television networks such as ESPN. Read more: weedales.com

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Many of the same principles of good news writing apply to sports journalism. For example, the journalist must be impartial and not show favoritism for any team or individual athlete. In addition, the journalist must be able to interview players, coaches, managers and other people involved in the sporting event in order to produce accurate and informative articles.

Moreover, the journalist must be able to gather and use voluminous statistical information on teams and individual athletes in most sports. In some cases, it may also be necessary to take pictures or shoot short video clips of sporting events in order to provide the audience with visual imagery of the sporting event.

In addition to providing news about upcoming sporting events, most sports websites also offer current scores and news. Some sites, such as FiveThirtyEight Sports, go even further by compiling not just scores and statistics but also interesting predictions and features about sport developments in the future.