Australian Sports Journalism: Power, Control and Threats

by Peter English

This insightful volume explores the major challenges facing sports journalism in Australia today, discussing how, in an environment dominated by sports organisations and increasing commercial factors, the role of the sports journalist is being severely compromised.

By combining quantitative and qualitative responses from 120 sports journalists with previous research and placing these in the theoretical lenses of field and gatekeeping theories,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367857812
• ISBN13: 9780367857813
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"