sports desk

Game coverage department

A sports desk is the department of a news organization that covers athletic events and related stories.

Reporters and editors at the sports desk handle game coverage, scores, player profiles, and league news.

The term also refers to the physical workspace where this team operates: She started her career at the sports desk of a local paper.

Related

play by play · scores · highlights · commentator · stadium · breaking · reporter · halftime · ticker · updates · injury report · press · analysts · coverage · microphone · deadline · editor · box scores

Categories
Opposites
news department/beat type

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Journalism coordination center

city desk · foreign desk · hard news · local news · world news

content gravity

sports deskhard news

Factual, timely journalism

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Family

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Top 500,000
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