Translated by: Constanza Mora Pedraza – AIPS Member
MADRID, August 8, 2020 – In 2021, the Olympic and Paralympic Games are scheduled to be held in Tokyo from July 23rd to August 8th and from August 24th to September 5th, respectively.
For UCAM and the Spanish Association of Sports Press (AEPD) the training of future sports journalists in the coverage of the Olympic Games is essential. For this purpose, we have designed a training program in which students will obtain a global and complete vision of these great sporting events. We will address the details of the news coverage; we will give useful tools to address the different communication scenarios and challenges, as well as to report rigorously and effectively on the day-to-day basis of the Olympic event.
Students will be able to follow live each of the masterclasses that will be held in the UCAM Radio and Television Studio and intervene with the questions they consider appropriate through videoconference.
With this link, anyone who wishes can register for the Master’s:
http://www.sportsuniversity.ucam.edu/programas/murcia/master-periodismo-deportivo/masterclasses
Below is the program of the MASTERCLASSES, which will be taught by sports journalists with wide professional experience and members of the Spanish Association of sports Press.
Masterclass: Audio-visual Coverage of the Olympic Games.
Speaker: JESÚS ÁLVAREZ
Duration: 1:30 hours.
Content:
· Distribution of qualified professionals according to the Olympic disciplines.
· Audio-visual rights and signal distribution worldwide.
· Special Envoy
· Different profiles of specialized communicators / collaborators / journalists.
· Audiences, screen quotas, big events, simultaneous coverage.
· Human stories complementary to the competition.
· Tokyo destination. Coverage and monitoring prior to the celebration of the Olympic Games.
Masterclass: Olympic Disciplines
Speaker: JULIAN REDONDO (AEPD President)
Duration: 1.30 hours.
Content:
· Overview of the different Olympic and Paralympic disciplines.
· How to group the different sports according to the venues/locations to achieve correct human resource management.
· Specialized journalists/collaborators.
· How to cover competitions that are held simultaneously.
· Prioritize disciplines based on interest (if there are Spanish participants, options for new world records, medals, interesting duels …).
· The Paralympic Games and its stars
Masterclass: Olympic Games / Team Sports
Speaker: PEDRO PABLO SAN MARTÍN – JOSÉ JOAQUÍN BROTONS
Duration: 2.00 hours
· Content:
· Football, basketball, handball, water polo, hockey, volleyball, baseball, softball.
· Superpowers in these disciplines.
· Interest of the audience for these sports.
· Analogy/differences according professional competitions.
· Other team sports of special interest in Olympic events.
Masterclass: Water Sports
Speaker: SOFÍA TORO – JAUME SOLER
Duration: 2.00 hours.
Content:
· Rowing, sailing …
· Open waters, the great journalist’s challenge to make a correct coverage.
· Different categories in sailing, canoeing… and the importance of knowing perfectly each one of the tests that are going to be held and the new modalities created by the IOC for Tokyo Olympic Games.
· Sports and new technologies, with Sofía Toro, sailing Olympic champion.
Masterclass: Combat Sports and Paralympic modalities.
Speaker: LAURA PÉREZ – NATALIA AYALA
Duration: 2.00 hours.
Content:
· Taekwondo, judo, Olympic boxing, wrestling, fencing …
· Combat sports. Contextualization of each one of the modalities
· Main actors, evolution of the different disciplines.
· The new sports: surfing, rock climbing, baseball, skateboarding y karate.
· The competition modalities of the Paralympic World Cup.
Masterclass: The Olympic stadium, epicentre of athletics
Speaker: MIGUEL ÁNGEL YÁÑEZ – ÁNGEL RODRÍGUEZ
Duration: 2.00 hours.
Content:
· Events held and its distribution in the stadium.
· Main division of the stadium: pit, tartan, throwing areas, etc.
· Coverage of the mayor events, data collection in real time.
· Other sports facilities and its respective competitions: weightlifting, racket sports, shooting, etc.
Masterclass: Olympic Swimming Pool: Where Olympic Legends are forged
Speaker: LOURDES GARCÍA CAMPOS
Duration: 2.00 hours.
Content
· The historical importance of swimming in the Olympic Games.
· Main actors in the history of Olympic Games.
· Different modalities / styles.
· Artistic Swimming
· Anecdotes/social relevance of swimmers.
· The journalist in front of the swimming pool. What to see, what to pay special attention, follow the events, distribution …
Masterclass: Gymnastics in the Olympic Games. Art taken to sport
Speaker: PALOMA DEL RÍO
Duration: 2.00 hours.
Content:
· Historical review, current context, great myths.
· The evolution of TV at the Olympic Games.
· General audience of the Olympic Games. All interesting data that should be known about the Olympic Games.
· Rhythmic Gymnastics: performances / importance of the music, clothing, choreography …/ judges / robe, ribbon, hoop, ball, clubs…
· Equipment: Bars, uneven bars, rings, vault, pommel horse … What to look at. Movements, score base on exercises performance.
· Anecdotes / social relevance of gymnasts
· The journalist facing the Gymnastics. The importance of collaborators to guide and help us going deeper and to bring interesting data to the general audience while satisfying the most specialized
· The balance between informing and entertaining in an informative and accurate way.
Masterclass: Endurance Sports: Marathon, walking, cycling ….
Speaker: OSVALDO MENÉNDEZ – PEPE GUTIÉRREZ
Duration: 2.00 hours.
Content:
· Marathon as origin of everything. History, context, actors.
· Coverage of competitions that last overtime: tracking, milestones, points of interest.
· Cycling one of the strengths of Spanish sport, Olympic champions and stars
Masterclass: The journalist before an event full of information and the latest technologies
Speaker: ALBERTO GOZALO– YOLANDA PERIS
Duration: 2.00 hours.
Content:
· Development of applications to manage the big data.
· Data control in a saturation information context.
· All Olympic sport data and its immediate use.
· Ability to find human interests stories beyond the competition.
· The journalistic nose
· The news that arise as a result of the Olympic Games.
· Unexpected protagonists, medalists, etc.
