My website will be focused on the NBA news. It will be a blog in which I provide daily updates on all major NBA news, such as scores, highlights, trades, free agency, and more. The purpose of my website is to keep my viewers in the loop of everything they need to know in the basketball world. I believe that I am qualified for this for several reasons. Firstly, I am a long time basketball fan. Ever since I was a young child I’ve heavily played and followed basketball, so I have a lot of knowledge of the sport but also analysis of the sport as well. Second, I have experience in reporting sports news from high school when I was a part of the sports broadcasting team which involved broadcasting games as well as taking to twitter to report what happened. Additionally, I would say I spend more than half of my free time watching sports analysts such as Stephen A Smith, Colin Cowherd, and Skip Bayless, as well as a lot of talk shows on ESPN, so I’m not only on top of the latest news, but I have an idea of how to report it. My intended audience would of course be basketball fans, but could also be sports fans in general. Just because someones favorite sport isn’t basketball, that doesn’t mean they don’t check in with what’s happening from time to time. My blog will be aimed towards sports fans of all sorts. The NBA is one, if not the, biggest sports market, so a blog that centers around NBA news seems like it could generate large viewership. In my blog I am also considering potentially including weekly podcasts in which I round up news from the past week. I have done commentaries like this before and I feel as though it would be very beneficial.
I found these images via Google Images and by using advanced search options in order to filter the images to ‘free to use or share, even commercially’. By selecting this option, all the images that appear are thus free to use. Furthermore, the purpose of my blog is to report daily NBA news. One of the statutes of fair use “explicitly lists several purposes especially appropriate for fair use, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research” (Columbia). Because my blog is used for news reporting, I have fair use to use the images.
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