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Article Evaluation:

Emily Graves

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22 September 2017

Data Journalism Response

I picked an article called Sports Journalism. The first thing that got my attention was a textbox at the top of the article that stated the article had included lists of references but sources are unclear because there are insufficient inline citations. This was the first thing that distracted me. The information that it gave was relevant, however I think that the flow of the subtitles could have gone in a better order so this distracted me some.

This article stays neutral. There was one claim that stood out to me the most and it was called sports journalists –toy journalists because what they write about isn’t serious. This was the biggest claim that stood out to me because that isn’t something that is quite proven to factual. The viewpoints that seem to be underrepresented are the work that goes into doing sports journalism and the viewpoints that seem to be overrepresented is that the work isn’t serious.

I think that the information that could have been added would have been information from United States and unlike how it talked mostly about Europe. The links work for some, but it also goes back to the textbox at the beginning of the article that mentioned it. It has a lot of references but not as much citations. There needs to be more citations put it. It gives valuable information, but I think some of it needs to be fact checked and cited so that gives the article more accountability/credibility.

This article is part of multiple Wikiprojects including journalism and sports. In the Talk section, people believe the article should be longer and give more credit to sports journalists and list some notable sports journalists. He believes the article should be redirected into an article about the practice of sports journalism. Someone else would like a section about sports blogs on there as well. The major critic of this article is that it is mostly about British sports journalists and that people want to see more of the American side as well.