The Evaluation of Sport Journalism of Tempo Magazine

Abstract

This article referring to Stufflebeam evaluation theory, with four components namely Context, Input, Process, and Product. However, the article will focus on context and input components. Respondents of this study are journalists, editors and those who have covered sports including the editor in chief of Tempo magazine, the Tempo Research and Library Section, and national sports figures. The research method is evaluation research which is a descriptive study that aims to find out the development of sports journalism in Tempo magazine. Program evaluation was arranged to find out activity after activity in planning and writing the journalistic work of the Tempo magazine. Based on the interviews, study of documents and observations. the research show that Tempo magazine is consistent in managing the elemenys on context and input components, thus it has a positive contribution to the development of sport news writing. The research recommends faculty of sport science especially, to embracethe various experience of Tempo magazine in the sport writing, which is believed to ease sport journalistic teaching in accordance with the expectation of faculty of sport science curriculum.