Cuts & Covers: How a Feature on the Betts Sisters Came Together

In this Month's 'Cuts & Covers', we take you inside the creative, editorial and writing process for our February feature on UCLA's Lauren & Sienna Betts.

Welcome back to another edition of ‘Cuts & Covers’, part of our No Cap Covers series where we take you inside the process of writing and putting together our biggest feature stories on the brightest stars in women’s basketball.

It’s a means to get you another step closer to the action of how we put together our content and why.

This past month, our cover featured UCLA center Lauren Betts and her younger sister, McDonald’s All-American and future Bruin Sienna Betts, and the evolution of their relationship as siblings. It was a really enjoyable piece to put together and one that carried with it its’ own unique challenges as a writer and journalist.

If you’re interested in the journalism craft or are interested in some of the writing process, I definitely recommend subscribing to our Ball-Knower’s tier or doing a free trial to gain access to the post and our chat feature. And if you’re a young journalist or one in the women’s basketball space, feel free to shoot me an email at andrew.haubner@cbs.com if you’d like to chat! We want to be a vector to help connect good journalists in women’s hoops with each other and find ways we can all rise together on this platform and beyond!

Now, let’s talk the Betts sisters…