APSE remains committed to recruiting and sponsoring college students as members of the organization.
For a $25 fee, students gain access to the minds and events that will shape the future of sports journalism. Sponsoring editors are asked to help mentor the students as they prepare to enter the profession.
To sponsor a student member, go to the How to Join page.
Several APSE members have answered the call. To recognize them and the new members they've brought into our organization, we're posting bios of our student members.
Today, meet a Temple University senior sponsored by John Quinn of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Joey Cranney
College status: Senior journalism major at Temple University in 2013-14
Sponsoring member: John Quinn, Philadelphia Inquirer Sports Editor
Experience: Provided in-depth, breaking news reporting on Temple athletics for The Temple News the past three years. Broke the story in December 2013 that the university would be eliminating seven Division I sports and had his story cited by national news organizations such as Sports Illustrated, USA Today and Deadspin.com. Cranney's ongoing reporting of Temple's all-sports move to the Big East Conference in 2012 was sourced by news organizations such as ESPN and CBS Sports. Cranney served as sports editor at The Temple News as a junior and assistant sports editor as a sophomore. He has covered multiple NCAA tournaments and a Temple bowl game, while filing datelines from cities like Albuquerque, Nashville, Tenn., and Brooklyn, N.Y. Has worked as intern an freelance writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
How did you become interested in sports journalism? What began as a desire to cover professional sports has blossomed into an interest in investigative reporting on college athletics and higher education. The stories that I've enjoyed writing the most, and ultimately the ones that mattered the most, have been the ones that have dealt with issues outside the lines. In today's financially bloated college athletics landscape, I think it's more important to foster such reporters now more than ever.
What's the most important thing you've learned? Building relationships. Sports journalists are unique in that 10 other people might be writing the same story as you in a given week. It's essential that you prove to your sources that you are more worthy of information than anyone else.
Dream job? National college sports reporter for the New York Times.
Hobbies/interestes/activities: Reading, cooking, playing guitar.
Joey's work appears on: temple-news.com, inquirer.com
Follow Joey on Twitter: @joey_cranney
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