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Publication details [#49949]

Rowe, David. 2007. Sports journalism. Still the 'toy department' of the news media? Journalism 8 (4) : 385–405.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

image | journalism | news reporting | pejorativity | sports language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Evaluating the International Sports Press Survey's (2005) results on especially Australian sports journalism's attention towards problems and social issues, and the variety of employed sources, this study explores whether sports journalism's pejorative depiction as 'toy department' is actually justified.