Basketball Beat with Donna Ditota

The 6-foot-1-inch Donna Ditota is a former college athlete and sports editor at St. Bonaventure University. Her unique perspective of the game gives her insight into the life of a college athlete.

Before covering the Syracuse University men’s basketball team for Syracuse.com and The Post Standard, Ditota’s first job was for a business magazine. She credits her time with the magazine as a hands-on learning experience from researching to reporting.

Since then she has been with Syracuse.com and The Post Standard for 32 years.

Although there is a challenge in covering the same beat for many years, Ditota describes herself as an inquisitive person and interested in many things.

“You do get to a point where you try to think of some new angles, new ways to approach things, new ways to tell what is essentially the same story. I’m curious about what is happening in games, people in the games and I much rather write a sidebar after a game,” Ditota said.

An alum of St. Bonaventure University, Ditota’s excellence in sports journalism awarded her SBU’s distinguished John Domino Award.

Ditota’s advice for breaking into the business is to gain as much as experience as possible. She also emphasizes on getting work published and working for an organization that will help you grow. 

Photo from Syracuse.com