A speciality far far away

This week I'm going to look at a branch of journalism which seems to be quite appealing to me. Sci-fi journalism.
As wide sweeping as the term science fiction is this can cover a variety of subjects concerning games, comics and films, the standard palette of what could be considered a 'nerd' or 'geek'.

Looking at the teachings of Chris Frost 'reporters need to be able to think up good story ideas and develop them into follow-up stories, features or other stories.'

In my opinion this one of the genres of journalism with the most creative space. For example if you look at the reviews of Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation) the kind of descriptive reviewing techniques he employs are quite unorthodox compared to say a book review (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/16/eddy-merckx-william-fotheringham-review). However this could depend on the site as Yahtzee reviewed the Darkness 2 (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/5394-Darkness-2) and compared to the review of similar website Game spot (http://uk.gamespot.com/the-darkness-ii/reviews/the-darkness-ii-review-6349874/) does not employ any of the humours or descriptive reviewing techniques Yahtzee does.

Whilst were on the subject of this brand of journalism I've noticed some of the more prominent figures in this section of journalism tend to have a go to franchise, something their extremely knowledge and passionate about. Game journalist Jim Sterling has proven himself to passionate and knowledgeable about Kirby and Alien. Though it's been clear journalists should have at least beginners knowledge of a wide variety of subjects it could be beneficial for me to find a subject like this which could make me stand out from the rest, in a sense my own personal USP.

As Angela Ripppon mentioned at a guest talk at the University of Lincoln for your personal subject 'you must know everything about it', this will be difficult for me to pin down one subject I could be more knowledgeable then most in. I may have to lead this blog on a to be continued line until I can think of one..