06.00 Reporter's Notebook

Stephen A. smith is an american sports journalist. He was born in Queens New York, and he attened winston-salem  State University. Smith's first started as a sports writer for the daily news in new york city. Smith Has work in radio with WEPN in New York city, Fox sports radio, and for ESPN radio. Stephen A. smith is one of the top African American sports Journalist. I think smith has a ton of experience and credentials.

Now Stephen A. smith is now working for ESPN. Sometimes he works as a basketball analyst, Most times he is Seen on ESPN's show first take. He is most known for his rants about the performance of players which he states facts and shows no opinion. His current job is similar to his previous positions because they were all a form of journalism. I think Smith is at the top of his career, he is well respected in the sports world and has even acted in movies.

5.07 Content Editing and Copyediting

The revising went well, i think it helped me a lot. My revisor pointed out all of my grammar errors and places were it could have came off like bias. the process could have been better if there would have been suggesstions as to what i could replace my errors with.

revised draft

Fashionable Teens and young adults across America have made wearing sneakers into a movement, and have influenced the creation of the sneaker culture. These people are considered to be "sneakerheads".

Originally Collecting sneakers started in the mid 1980's when Nike and Michael Jordan collaborated. Consumers love the team up with the two and kept the sneaker shelves empty. Eventually hip hop artist like RUN DMC started to wear sneakers and the demand for sneakers increased even more. As the years passed more basketball players started to get endorsed by sneaker companies such as Nike, Adidas, and Reebok.

Because teens looked up to these basketball players and hip hop artist they found a way to look somewhat like them, which was sneakers. The sneaker companies took way of this and they started to release exclusive colorways of certain sneakers. These exclusive colorways would be released in limited numbers sometimes as low as 100 pairs throughout the world. When the sneakers are released in these low numbers the buyers feel like they have to be the first to have them so they have what the call a camp out. When the "sneakerheads" camp out for a sneaker they sit outside of the store and wait until the shoe is released. Sometimes campouts can last for a few hours, but some can last for weeks. An example of this when the Titanium Air Jordan XX3 shoes were releasing, They were set to be sold in 23 stores throughout the country and each store only had 23 pairs some of those stores were reported to have buyers camping out for as long as two weeks.

Some sneaker collectors make money off of there collection by buying and reselling sneakers. others say that they could never sell their sneakers because they love them to much. These collectors all collect in different ways and for different reasons and but one thing that is the same with them all is that they all love their sneakers.