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🏅Sports Reporting and Production
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184 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Sports Reporting and Production exam

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A

Access bias
Access Passes
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Premiere Pro
Aerial cameras
Alley-oop
Audio operator
Audio recorders
Auditory imagery
Avid Media Composer

B

B-roll footage
Balanced reporting
Blitzing
Broadcast equipment
Broadcast producer
Broadcast standards
Broadcast television
Broadcast truck
Broadcasting software
Buzzer-beater

C

Camera operators
Camera placement
Chin music
Citizen journalism
Clean sheets
Closed-ended questions
Content scheduling
Corsi
Coverage strategy
Cross-media promotion
Cutaway shots

D

Data dashboard
Digital reporting
Direct broadcast satellite
Direct quote
Double-double

E

Earned run average
Editorial producer
Equipment Management
Esports coverage
Expected assists
Expected goals
Expected goals (xg)
Expected Points Added

F

Fielding Independent Pitching
First serve percentage

G

Game film review
Game report
Gender bias
Goal cameras
Goal differential
Goalkeeper
Golden age of sports journalism
Graphics operator
Graphics overlays
Graphics package

H

Hat trick
HD Broadcasting
Headset
Heat map
High-definition cameras
Highlight shows
Historic game reenactments
Home run
Home-field advantage
Howard Cosell
Human interest angle
Human Interest Story
Human-interest story

I

Immersion reporting
Instant replay system
Instant replay technology
Instant replays