Posts Tagged ‘Duke Lacrosse’

  • 17 Apr

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    Duke Baseball and Women’s Lacrosse

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    Over the last two weeks I’ve learned something about myself: I like shooting sports. I actually like it a lot.

    My first assignment was a Friday night baseball game on April 8, featuring Duke against Boston College. I grabbed a Nikon D3, courtesy of The Chronicle, and headed out with Tyler Seuc, one of our staff photographers who was assigned to show me the ropes (and make sure I didn’t break anything). I’d never shot an event of any type before, so I think I snapped a few good shots. For a rookie, at least. Click the picture below to see a 12-photo slideshow.

    Dillon Haviland winds up against Boston College on April 8, 2010 at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. He pitched 5.2 innings and earned the win in Duke's 10-6 victory.

    I was on my own this past Friday night for the Duke vs. UNC Womens Lacrosse game. I took the trusty D3 and also dragged along our awesome 300mm lens. I could tell I was getting better shots than I did last week—and, needless to say, had a bunch of fun shooting with the 300mm. Tyler taught me last week the importance of getting a player’s feet into the shot, which is something I focused on during this game. Click the picture below to see the slideshow from the game.

    Christie Kaestner attempts to shake her defender in Duke's 11-10 victory over North Carolina on April 15, 2011 at Koskinen Stadium.

    Please leave any tips or critiques in the comments section! I’m (obviously) just beginning to learn.

  • 13 Dec

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    Media Coverage of Duke and Virginia Lacrosse

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    My foray into quasi-graduate level academia.

    This semester, I took the capstone course for my policy journalism and media studies certificate with Professor Laura Roselle. For the class, I completed a formal research paper examining and comparing the coverage by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine and Sports Illustrated of the Duke lacrosse case in 2006 and the Virginia lacrosse tragedy in 2010.

    I chose the first three months of each case as my time frame and looked at how each article was framed. Framing is a communication scholar’s term for the idea that the media makes aspects of an issue more salient (i.e. accessible) through different modes of presentation and therefore shifts people’s attitudes. I was interested in how the two cases were reported, so I didn’t include opinion columns or editorials. I looked for these five generic frames:

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