Game On!

From Print to Digital: Covering Sports in Your Community

Tools and Technology for Today’s Sports Reporters

friday, sept. 17 • sdna – brookings

11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. • (lunch is provided)
Covering local sports is an important part of a newspaper’s franchise. Build on that franchise by attending
an SDNA/SDSU Fillbrandt Endowment workshop on sports reporting Friday, Sept. 17, at SDNA in Brookings.

learn from our presenters :

funded by:
Sioux Falls Argus Leader Sports Reporter Terry Vandrovec will discuss the tools and techniques
Funding for this workshop is
he uses to cover much more than just the action on the field and the court.
provided by the SDSU Department
Terry Vandrovec grew up in Jamestown, N.D., – in the shadow of the world’s largest buffalo – and graduated from of Journalism and Mass
Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., in 2001. He’s been working in the sports department at a daily paper Communication and the Marian
since the age of 17, spending 10 years at The Forum in Fargo before moving onto the Argus Leader in 2006. He
currently covers SDSU athletics and – when the time allows – the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA Development and Casey Fillbrandt Endowment
League. He has a wife, a 6-year-old daughter and twin girls on the way. in Journalism. In 1993, Marian
Terry Vandrovec Fillbrandt established a journalism
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SDSU Journalism Professor Matt Cecil will demonstrate how tomorrow’s sports reporters are continuing education fund with
being equipped and trained to cover the game. the SDSU Foundation as a
tribute to her husband Casey, a
Matthew Cecil is an associate professor in the SDSU Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, an
avid Jackrabbit sports fan, and an expert in new media technologies. A Brookings native, Cecil graduated from 1935 journalism graduate and
SDSU, earned a master’s degree in History from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and a Ph.D. in Mass onetime general manager of
Communication from the University of Iowa. Before returning home to join the SDSU faculty in 2005, Cecil SDNA. With cooperation from
served on mass communication faculties at Purdue University and The University of Oklahoma. Cecil and his SDNA, the department sponsors
wife, Dr. Jennifer M. Tiernan (also a professor at SDSU) have a six-year-old son, Owen. Matt Cecil
the Fillbrandt Forum of speakers
••• and training to update skills of
SDSU Sports Information Director Jason Hove will discuss how there is much more to his job than just working newspaper personnel.
press releases and media guides in working with reporters.
Jason Hove has served as assistant athletic director for sports information at South Dakota State University since
2006, overseeing publicity for the Jackrabbits’ 21-sport varsity athletics program. He joined the athletics staff
as assistant sports information director in 1998 after beginning his professional career as a general assignment
reporter and page editor at the Mitchell Daily Republic. A 1996 graduate of SDSU’s journalism program, Hove
served as editor-in-chief of The Collegian during his senior year.
Jason Hove

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