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Hello there,
I am CML, I am a southern girl who is a very dedicated college student. I am an athlete and have done many different sports during my life. As both a person and as an Athlete I am a very hard-working person. I have been in track, in basketball, and in cheerleading, I did track and cheerleading all throughout my years in school. However, I was very successful in all of the sports that I did. I was the most successful in cheerleading and track. While running track I was very good at running long distances, and this led me to winning many events in which I raced. In cheerleading however, I was even more successful, I made it as far as being at one of the best gyms in the country, to then cheering at college.
Along with loving the sports that I did I love any and every sport that is on national television. I especially love baseball and basketball. These are two sports that I love both working in and just being a part of in any way. There is no better feeling in the world, to me personally, than being on the sidelines of a major sports game and being with your team when they win. This is why as a college student I plan to major in Sports Media. When I have my degree, I plan to be able to move to a city that has either a Major League Baseball team, or a team in the National Basketball Association. I would love to be able to work with specific teams. For example, in the MLB I would love to work for either the Las Angeles Dodgers, or the Milwaukee Brewers, and in the NBA, I would like to work for the Golden State Warriors or the Dallas Mavericks.
I have previously worked in different sports, and that is what has led to my current dream of being in the media field with sports teams. In the past I have worked keeping the score book for a men’s basketball team, as well as occasionally for the women’s team. I have also worked as a score board operator at a large baseball complex. However, even with already working in sports there are still many questions I have about trying to get into the specific field of media. There can be so many questions but some of the ones I have include things like, How hard is it to get into the media field in professional sports? Which sport would I enjoy working in more? and even How having a job in media works exactly? All these questions are one that I would be able to find the answers to through learning more about the media field through both classes and through many hands on experienced, these classes and experiences I hope to be able to take/gain within the next few years so that after college I will be able to obtain my dream job working in professional sports media.
Over the last 5 or so months while studying media and journalism I have found myself being able to answer many of the question that I wanted to know about the journalism industry and things involving the dream job that I have always wanted.
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The first question of mine I was able to somewhat find an answer to was How hard is it to get into the media field in professional sports? No while I was able to find an answer about this, I was not able to get a full answer. I was able to figure out that getting into the media industry can be both easy and hard at the same time. The research I did was mostly about the media in general so I still have some research to do involving sports but that is okay!
I was also able to answer my question about how working in the media works. This is because over the last few months I have looked into the different things behind the media, like politics, print media, digital media, and even different media theories. I was able to understand the different types of convergence in media, the function of the media, things like print media, visual media, interactive media, audio media, the effects of the media on society, and even societies effect on the media.
I was able to understand the things that go into having a job in media, because I was able to get a true and deeper understanding of what the media is as a whole. Getting these answers have helped me to want to continue looking into the field of journalism and media as a job.
