sports journalist
ISCO: 2642. Skills: 56. Essential: 23.
Essential skills
- apply grammar and spelling rules
- build contacts to maintain news flow
- consult information sources
- copyright legislation
- develop professional network
- digital journalism
- editorial standards
- evaluate writings in response to feedback
- follow ethical code of conduct of journalists
- follow the news
- grammar
- interview people
- interview techniques
- participate in editorial meetings
- spelling
- sport games rules
- sporting events
- sports competition information
- stay up to date with social media
- study topics
- use specific writing techniques
- write to a deadline
- writing techniques
Supporting skills
- adapt to changing situations
- adapt to type of media
- apply desktop publishing techniques
- ask questions at events
- audio editing software
- check correctness of information
- communicate by telephone
- create online news content
- desktop publishing
- document interviews
- edit digital moving images
- edit negatives
- edit photographs
- edit recorded sound
- follow directions of on-site director
- follow newspaper house style
- ICT software specifications
- manage personal finances
- manage writing administration
- multimedia systems
- perform image editing
- perform video editing
- present during live broadcasts
- press law
- promote one's writings
- pronunciation techniques
- proofread text
- provide written content
- rewrite articles
- sport history
- table tennis
- write captions
- write headlines