David Lowden has had more than 20 years’ experience as a sports journalist including recently being the chief of staff of Foxtel coverage of the Commonwealth Games last year in Delhi. This year, he joins La Trobe University to start the new sports journalism degree, but what does sports journalism have that other mainstream journalism doesn’t have?

Matt Smith talks to David Lowden about this and more in this La Trobe University podcast.

Find out more about sport journalism at La Trobe University.