Sports Journalism at Its Best: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Articles, Cartoons, and Photographs

Sports Journalism at Its Best: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Articles, Cartoons, and Photographs Buy

This is a dynamic collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles, cartoons, and photographs that relate to sports journalism. Fischer introduces sports journalism in the history of the Pulitzer Prize. He then examines fact-oriented sports reporting such as spot news, sports reporting, and sports photography. Next, he examines background-oriented reporting such as profiles of sports celebrities and investigative reporting of sports-related cases. Fischer concludes with a look at opinion-oriented genres such as editorial page sports comments and criticism of television sportscasting.