<p>I want to be a sports writer. I've heard a lot that people who want to become journalists minor in journalism and major in something like English. Is that the best way to go?</p>
<p>Major in Journalism or English. A Journalism major with an active interest in sports would probally be preferred. I think mass communications would be a good major/minor also.</p>
<p>Try to write for the sports section of your schools paper so you can get clips.</p>
<p>I think the University of Texas has a Sports Journalism major.</p>
<p>A journalist friend of mine once told me it's best to get a journalism degree in graduate school and spend your undergraduate majoring in English or History where you gain a general knowledge of the world and develop your writing skills. However, her field is international reporting so it may be different for sports writing.</p>
<p>ooo. i really want to aim for international relations as an undergrad maybe at wellesley. then probably journalism as a grad.</p>
<p>for print journalism...major in anything but journalism....preferably history, political science ect! But if your gunna major in them, you better plan to attend journalism school for grad studies!! If you have the grades...i'd go for Columbia University's graduate studies in journalism....they dont offer under grad but have one of the best grad journalism schools in the country....as well as Northwestern!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Ohh and for all the broadcast journalist hopefuls out their....MAJOR IN BROADCAST JOURNALSIM IN YOUR UNDERGRAD STUDIES! I would consider doing a double major like in the social sciences or english or bussiness or even a foreign language (spanish preffered---better jobs to come if you do this language) .....and then go on to grad school as well for broadcast!! Everyone can write but you need a special skill for broadcast!</p>
<p>I'd major in journalism--our oldest daughter, a junior, wants to be a sports writer as well, and that's the advice she's been given. There are two reasons for this: (1) journalism jobs, and particularly writing jobs, often require networking and placement services and internships most readily available through the journalism school's placement facilities. Schools like Northwestern, University of Missouri-Columbia and Syracuse, to name the three most well known undergrad j schools, are particularly into such opportunities. If you do not major in journalism, you may be precluded from these opportunities, or at least get the short end of the stick; and (2) some j schools (Missouri-Columbia as an example) require you to be a journalism major to work on certain publications, which gets you "clips" (writing samples) you need for jobs. All schools will let you work on the student paper regardless of j school status, but at Missouri, which publishes the newspaper for the city of Columbia, being a j major is required. </p>
<p>If you want to double major in English, poli sci, etc., that's great too.</p>
<p>Of course, many prominent journalists didn't major in journalism, or even attend schools with an undergrad j department. This doesn't mean, though, that it isn't easier with a journalism degree.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Well I dont need it for the clips because I already have many samples of writing that have been published on the internet and I write for these sites all the time (and will hopefully continue to during college). Also I will be paid to write for a football preview over the summer.</p>
<p>I really have no desire to go to Missouri or Syracuse or those big j-schools.</p>
<p>I have always wanted to go to Notre Dame, and create my own major, a combination of broadcast and print journalism. Would that be a bad move in terms of interships etc.</p>