Since joining the Sports Journalism course in University of South Wales I have learnt many new skills and had the opportunity to grasp many new experiences. While undertaking my studies I have been able to explore many different and new modules such as photography. I have learnt how to compose a match report in more detail with a better structure leading to some of my work going onto Expo sport.

Furthermore I have been encouraged to boost my confidence levels as I have been given tasks such as to ask for interviews and get team sheets at the sports park on a Wednesday afternoon. Within my first month of this course I got given the amazing opportunity to be apart of observing the FAW awards and getting to take pictures and videos of the event, I also had the chance to meet inspirational people such as Michelle Owens and Helen Ward, this opportunity also allowed me to interview the new technical director of the FAW Trust David Adams, by interviewing David Adams, who was one of my very first people in which I interviewed, led me to a better understanding of what consists in an interview and how to approach it.

As being new to the sports journalism world I didn’t understand before I came here the in depth laws behind being a journalist, I have now started to learn some of the things you can and cannot do when writing articles and doing interviews which will be extremely helpful to me in my pursuit of being a sports journalist.

Since I have had two presentation submissions this term I have learnt that the deadlines which are set must be met to a good standard and on time which has bettered my time management skills. By getting interviews for my first presentations I understand the importance of contacts within the industry and reaching out to new people, this is to get an insight and opinions of the topic in which is asked to research.

Photography is a new module which previously I haven’t been introduced to. This term I have had the opportunity to rent cameras out from the university and take them up to the sports park in Treforest, in which I have been able to gather shots of different teams within the park which lead to some being submitted to Expo sport. I have been taught the difference between shutter speed and aperture which helped me improve my picture quality.