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Newsletter n° 50
THE BUSINESS OF NEWSPAPERS CONTENT & ETHICS

Sports journalism seminar gives new & challenging ideas

"We had two main objectives with the seminar: to strengthen and professionalise southern African sports journalists in their role as commentators, interviewers and broadcasters, and to support the trend to broaden sports journalism from sports results and live commentary to also include social issues such as HIV/AIDS and gender and to help sports journalists in addressing issues that are important in their respective societies by using sports," says Johan Romare of Fojo.

Among the issues raised during the seminar were ethics in sports journalism; sports as a part of the society - the role of the sports reporter; live commentary and research and sources.

"One concrete goal we wanted to reach was to break the fear of live commentary for those participants unused to that part of journalism. Therefore we arranged a live commentary exercise during a football cup at the national football arena in Windhoek. It was a fantastic experience to see all the commentary boxes filled with course participants doing live commentary," says Mr Romare.

On how sports journalism can contribute to other branches within journalism, Mr Romare says: "The above example from Zambia is in a way an answer to this question. Sport journalism has a huge audience in Southern Africa, as well as in the rest of the world, and reaches viewers and listeners that are unreachable by other kinds of journalism. This gives sports journalists an opportunity, and a responsibility, to include other topics in their job apart from traditional sports reports. In this job they have a lot to learn from other journalists. Sports journalists also have something to learn from their colleagues when it comes to research and sources, critical reporting, ethics and investigative reporting."

"The biggest obstacle for sports journalism in Southern Africa is the lack of resources and the lack of journalistic experience and training," says Mr Romare.

The objective of broadening sports journalism was achieved particularly by the Zambian participants. After the course in May, they produced a series of interviews with prominent sportsmen and sportswomen on HIV/AIDS. By doing so they reached a target group especially important in the prevention of AIDS: men.

Fojo will arrange a similar course for journalists from the SADC region in September 2002. The course will be arranged together with the NSJ Centre and will take place in Botswana.

For information about joining this course, contact rap21@wan.asso.fr
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