Five or six years ago – sadly, age makes time run together at this point in a man’s life – I was invited to Ohio University to teach a couple of courses in journalism. One of those courses was sports reporting.

In the late 1980s and early ’90s, I had taught at the university, where I developed a course in sports journalism. More than a decade later, I returned to the Athens, Ohio, campus to resurrect the course. I was looking forward to it.

On the first day of class, I realized how the years had changed the profession. No longer was the medium of choice for young readers the daily newspaper. Students in my class reflected those new reading habits; they were more likely to get their news — sports or otherwise — from the Internet or TV, not from the local newspaper. Yet their appetite for news hadn’t changed one iota.

During the 10-week course, I found young men and women who were eager to learn the ins and outs of sports journalism (and its related careers). Most of them found the hectic, complicated, angst-filled world of sports as intoxicating as those men and women who wrote about these games 20 years earlier did.

Yet few of these students knew how to acquire the skills needed to break into the competitive work of journalism. They did not have an understanding of the craft of writing. They needed guidance then; they still need it now.

My site www.czarjustice.com will offer guidance. Through it, I will celebrate the things good about writing in the journalistic style. The site will include links, articles and insights into what makes daily journalism – and all genres of journalism, really — the splendid profession it is. It will also be a vehicle for discussion of journalism topics, including the future of the profession and its ethics.

In addition, I hope to use the website to share my own prose, which may or may not measure up to the standards of other writers whose work I will showcase.

So feel free to take what you want from my website. Discard or ignore the rest. But enjoy the journey. It will take you places that I hope you will remember.