Changing Sports Journalism Practice
in the Age of Digital Media
As the funding of journalism moves centre stage as a driver in shaping the new trajectories of journalism in the digital age, this book focuses on how those working in sports journalism have had to adapt and re-invent themselves.
Running through this international collection are key themes related to sports journalism in the digital environment. These include aspects of disruption to established norms of journalistic practice, institutional allegiance, the authority and primary definer role of journalism, and the career structure and development for journalists writing about sport. The book draws on empirically led research that mixes qualitative and quantitative approaches and seeks to better understand and position what is going on across contemporary sports journalism. In so doing, this collection identifies change, but also areas of continuity as well as new opportunities for journalists.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Digital Journalism.
Raymond Boyle is a Professor of Communications at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published widely for many years on sports, media, and journalism. He is a co-Managing Editor of the Media, Culture and Society journal, and his most recent book is The Talent Industry: Television, Cultural Intermediaries and New Digital Pathways (2018).
Changing Sports Journalism
Practice in the Age of Digital
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Contents
Raymond Boyle
Brett Hutchins and Raymond Boyle
Merryn Sherwood, Matthew Nicholson and Timothy Marjoribanks
Peter English
Simon McEnnis
Ana Carolina Vimieiro
Thomas Horky and Philipp Pelka
Christoph G. Grimmer
Richard Haynes, Adrian Hadland and Paul Lambert
Christopher Tulloch and Xavier Ramon
The chapters in this book were originally published in Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Sports Journalism: Changing journalism practice and digital media
Raymond Boyle
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 493495
Chapter 1
A Community of Practice: Sport journalism, mobile media and institutional change
Brett Hutchins and Raymond Boyle
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 496512
Chapter 2
Controlling the Message and the Medium? The impact of sports organisations digital and social channels on media access
Merryn Sherwood, Matthew Nicholson and Timothy Marjoribanks
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 513531
Chapter 3
Cheerleaders or Critics? Australian and Indian sports journalists in the contemporary age
Peter English
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 532548
Chapter 4
Playing on the Same Pitch: Attitudes of sports journalists towards fan bloggers
Simon McEnnis
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 549566
Chapter 5
Sports Journalism, Supporters and new Technologies: Challenging the usual complicity between media and football institutions
Ana Carolina Vimieiro
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 567586
Chapter 6
Data Visualisation in Sports Journalism: Opportunities and challenges of data-driven journalism in German football
Thomas Horky and Philipp Pelka
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 587606
Chapter 7
Pressure on Printed Press: How soccer clubs determine journalism in the German Bundesliga
Christoph G. Grimmer
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 607635
Chapter 8
The State of Sport Photojournalism: Concepts, practice and challenges
Richard Haynes, Adrian Hadland and Paul Lambert
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 636651
Chapter 9
Take Five: How Sports Illustrated and Lquipe redefine the long-form sports journalism genre
Christopher Tulloch and Xavier Ramon
Digital Journalism, volume 5, issue 5 (June 2017) pp. 652672
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Raymond Boyle is a Professor of Communications at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published widely for many years on sports, media, and journalism. He is a co-Managing Editor of the Media, Culture and Society journal.
Peter English is a Lecturer in Journalism in the Faculty of Arts, Business and Law at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. His chief research area is sports journalism, with an emphasis on its journalists, content, and social media.
Christoph G. Grimmer is a German politician, serving as Mayor of Crailsheim, Germany. He is a Chairman of Stadtwerke Crailsheim and the Franconian Water Service GmbH.
Adrian Hadland is a Professor in the Division of Communications, Media & Culture at the University of Stirling, UK. His research interests include journalism, comparative media systems, digital journalism, democracy, mobile phones and journalism, ethics, photography, biographical writing, and non-fiction.
Richard Haynes