Living up to the [hoops] hype

With the internet slowly becoming the main source for news around the world, it’s getting harder and harder to figure out if the ‘news’ is actually from a reputable source. Is it a blog or is it from a real journalist? Can a blogger be a journalist? Is a blogger a journalist?

2. Hoopshype.com is a site which provides basketball news to people via a small (yet informative) site. With the wide varietly of topics covered about basketball on Hoopshype.com I believe that the information on the site is indeed that of journalism. These stories are not made up and since they are in fact writes of some sort [journalists perhaps?] and publishing these works on the web it should be looked at as reliable journalism. Also, many of the columnists of the site are from other sites like ESPN, LA Times, etc. Hoopshype is sort of ESPN-esque in the kinda of style of writing and reporting.
3. With the success of Hoopshype.com the future of sports journalism will without a doubt have more sites like these pop up in the future. Because Hoopshype.com has so much information about the sport of basketball, I can see it as the one-stop-shop for basketball news. Typically one would read stories from various sites like NBA.com or sports.YAHOO.com but this site really brings it all together with many views. Other sports will benefit from this idea in the future and more ‘hybrid’ sports journalism sites will appear.

Comparison: Basketballblogs.org is very similar to that of Hoopshype.com where different stories form everywhere are posted on the site.