Cornell Sun???

[mike1960]

I believe there are some former Sun people on this board.  Any explanation why men's and women's basketball gets such scarce coverage this season?

Has to be due to an inability to find enough students interested in covering the teams. I covered men's basketball for the Sun for 3 years and wrote game articles for every game, along with numerous features. Today only men's hockey, via Jane McNally, receives equivalent coverage.

If I may ask, did you go into journalism after school or did you go in another direction?

I was on the fence, but by junior year I decided to go to law school.

I hope it worked out well. I ask because I miss the old sports journalism we'd get from SI and elsewhere -- the kind of journalism that didn't just give us a rundown of events but gave us insight into personalities, the strategies, the history, etc.

[underskill]

The Athletic is the closest thing to that these days but even that's gone somewhat downhill since the NYT purchase.

[ugarte]

Being on the student paper back in the day was an early start at a career, or at least some experimenting with the idea. There is no real future in traditional sports journalism. Print journalism is mostly dead and most web journalism projects run out of money within five years or turn into garbage. It's a shame.

To the extent you do want to work a job as a journalist or sportswriter, much like law, there are better things to do in college than get an early start on the specific skill.

[billhoward]

If I may ask, did you go into journalism after school or did you go in another direction?

There is not much future for journalists who want to earn a halfway decent living, like the equivalent of schoolteacher salary. And journalism for a lot of workers is reporter, writer, editor (no one else will edit the story) and photographer/videographer in one. A trust fund is more important than your major, and since more and more involves being on-camera, it's nice to look like classmate Christopher Reeve than, say, me. The best-paid automotive journalist (broadly put) is an Australian, SuperCar Blondie.

I don't want this to digress too far, but online has made more information/news available on a national level. I get the WaPost, NYT, WSJ and Newark Star-Ledger every day. Compare that to getting Ithaca news; there is barely one reporter checking in on Ithaca. The Ithaca Times weekly, that is a plus.

[billhoward]

If I may ask, did you go into journalism after school or did you go in another direction?

There is not much future for journalists who want to earn a halfway decent living, like the equivalent of schoolteacher salary. And journalism for a lot of workers is reporter, writer, editor (no one else will edit the story) and photographer/videographer in one. A trust fund is more important than your major, and since more and more involves being on-camera, it's nice to look like classmate Christopher Reeve than, say, me. The best-paid automotive journalist (broadly put) is an Australian, SuperCar Blondie.

I don't want this to digress too far, but online has made more information/news available on a national level. I get the WaPost, NYT, WSJ and Newark Star-Ledger every day. Compare that to getting Ithaca news; there is barely one reporter checking in on Ithaca. The Ithaca Times weekly, that is a plus.

[upprdeck]

We have way more ways to get information and yet we have about 10% of the information locally that we used to get,

But you pay for what you get.  People want free news and then complain when free doesnt do the stories they want to know about.

[nshapiro]

We have way more ways to get information and yet we have about 10% of the information locally that we used to get,

But you pay for what you get.  People want free news and then complain when free doesnt do the stories they want to know about.

And even when free news does the story, nobody reads it.
https://www.thenorthshoreleader.com/single-post/endorsement-robert-zimmerman-for-us-congress-ny3

[CU2007]

We have way more ways to get information and yet we have about 10% of the information locally that we used to get,

But you pay for what you get.  People want free news and then complain when free doesnt do the stories they want to know about.

That's simply amazing.

And even when free news does the story, nobody reads it.
https://www.thenorthshoreleader.com/single-post/endorsement-robert-zimmerman-for-us-congress-ny3