Even though I am open to different topics, since I transferred to Baruch and became Journalism major in addition to writing for the school’s student independent newspaper, my focus has always been sports writing. I used to play and I enjoy writing so I wanted to combine the two.
I used to keep a composition notebook full of stories when I was a kid, not journalistic but I knew I always wanted to write. I would probably choose sports as a potential topic because of my familiarity with covering the games, interviewing to obtain quotes, and fact checking statistical data. Basketball is my favorite sport, it’s the one I enjoy the most writing about, followed by football and baseball. However, I have started to become more familiar with hockey and swimming and I hope to expand my knowledge into other types of sports. Also, the sports topic doesn’t have to focus specifically on what happens in the game, it could be about gain or loss of revenue, ticket and concession prices and how they affect fans, and fan rivalries among other things.
If I had to choose a topic other than sports, it would probably be along the lines of crime. It could be either about crime in relation to things like the living costs in an area, property value, were places that are now gentrified previously high in crime?, if so how does that impact the previous residents. Also, how can crime impact the educational institutions in the area? Those are simply ideas however; there are several possibilities on crime.
Those are just two potential topics, with sports being my most comfortable to write on, but if another topic comes up that appears more interesting, even if I have never done it before, I would not mind using it as my topic.
