Sports journalism specializes in reporting on sports events and topics and has grown in importance over the last few decades. Most news media organizations have a special section for sports. There are also many publications which are completely sports oriented. Popular newspapers and magazines like L’Equipe in France, La Gazzetta Dello Sport in Italy, Sports Illustrated and the Sporting News in America, and television networks like ESPN and Star Sports are all exclusively for sports.
The career path of becoming a sports journalist is relatively straightforward and besides a passion for sports requires you to have an acumen for creative writing and the ability to communicate with sports fan your experience, insight and knowledge of sports events.