Finished Proposal

500 word proposal

At present I am a second year student in digital media journalism. My professional targets in the journalism area are to become a broadly known travel writer/journalist. I aim to travel to gain knowledge and learn a variety of cultures and valuable experiences to write about, and I aspire to publish these in a journal style document throughout my travels. My other interest in journalism is to be a versatile sports commentator, writer, and presenter. I would like to become a freelance sports writer in the future, but also, I would like to work in television and on radio as a sports commentator and pundit. My aspirations are to have published a variety of travel journals and blogs about my experiences, how the different cultures, ways of life and people I meet vary and what the experiences I have had have taught me. I also wish to gain as much knowledge and experience within the sports industry of journalism in relation to my particular areas of interest. To help this mature, as part of my studies I am going to investigate how a local branch of the BBC sports department functions, in relation to football. To achieve this, I hope to oversee and watch the sports team, on a local radio call in show, or shadow a single professional in the working environment. Also, in addition I would like to spend  an active sports day with the team, as they do live match commentary and radio set up for a football game. To record this, I would write up a report on my day’s activity, and provide documentation from the member of staff I worked with on these occasions. I will also blog the day’s activity to provide an analytic reflection when I come to evaluate my experience. My timescale to achieve this would be to have completed both of these operations by January 2012. This overall experience would provide me with contacts, and vital knowledge of how an organisation operates at the highest level, and provide me with a base of expertise to develop further. This will cover the professional targets set out in the brief, target 2, and target 3.