Season 2, Episode 7: Sports Stori...

Season 2, Episode 7: Sports Stories Put the Audience in the Game w/ Shawn Hutcheon

The Starfish Storytellers by Liana Henry

Episode notes

This fast-paced episode is about the many nuances of sports storytelling, through the lens of a Correspondent for the talented Boston Bruins NHL hockey team.

Our friend, Shawn Hutcheon, a correspondent of the Boston Bruins Media Program for The Fourth Period Magazine, a sports radio commentator, a member of the Professional Hockey Writer’s Association, and a hockey player rep and skills coach, takes us through a day-in-the-life of a sports writer who spends many hours in the Bruins locker room and on the ice coaching future professional players.

Shawn points out how writing longer features, where he gets to expand beyond last night’s score, gives the reader a more complete picture of the how and why to an athlete’s style of play. He shares what it’s like to get up close to one’s heroes and how important it is - as a fan - to rememb ... 

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Sports writingSports StorytellingSports Journalism