Sports media is among the fastest-growing sectors of the media industry. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication's MA in sports journalism is a 36 credit hour, three-semester program providing students with unparalleled preparation for careers in sports media and communication.

Students begin with intensive multimedia skills courses, which teach them to produce sports and news coverage across broadcast, digital and print platforms. From there, students choose advanced classes in sports reporting, videography, podcast production, live sports production, play-by-play delivery, narrative writing and documentary video before finishing the program in sports bureaus located in Phoenix or Los Angeles, or at the Cronkite Agency, an immersive strategic communications agency experience at the journalism school.