Newspaper Sports Research Articles

HUEBNER Stefan – Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974. Singapore: Nus Press, 2016. Pp. 397

HUEBNER Stefan – Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974. Singapore: Nus Press, 2016. Pp. 397. Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974 is organized chronologically from the first Asian Games in the wake of the First World War to the Seventh Asian Games in 1974. Each chapter is some 30 pages in length, and the structure of the chapters is equally consistent, each one consisting of a short introduction, a single example of contextualization, the history of the Games in question, and an assessment. This book is concise, clear, and written in a style that is elegant, easily readable, and accessible to all, yet with a richness of information and accuracy of synthesis that will surprise many specialists. In addition, the broad range of references and substantial critical apparatus supply clear evidence of a real commitment to historical truth. The main documents are Western sources studying the first games from 1913 to the 1920s; the author has used either administrative documents—such as reports and letters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), various colonial administrations, and the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)—or local newspapers. Stefan Huebner focuses on the seven countries (Philippines, China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Iran) that hosted the Asian Games during this period. The scope is limited by a lack of information about the participation of French colonies during this period, and Dutch Indonesia appears only during Games in which it participated. It is not surprising, given that several Asian countries were colonies at the time, that the author devotes some time to the role of the YMCA in spreading sporting activities among both white colonists and the local elite. However, the author has missed an opportunity to contribute to recent debates about what constitutes “sport.” Similarly, Huebner does not define what he means by “modernity” or modernization, terms used frequently in his book. Perhaps the author thought that hosting this kind of event was sufficient evidence of each country’s modernization. It seemed that each Asian Games had only one aim: to show the modernization of the country. The Thailand Games in 1966 and 1970 here are a notable exception; those Games used sport as a tool to foster economic and infrastructure for the benefit of the country’s rural inhabitants as well as to attract tourism. Thailand’s organization of the Games was so efficient that a German contingent came to study its organization before the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. It proved that one Asian country could become a model for the West. Next, Huebner emphasizes the strategies adopted by American, British, and Dutch elites to develop sport among certain segments of the local elite as a leisure activity or as a genuine political program for the whole population that would prevent the development of local nationalism. From among the local elites, Huebner quotes politicians and journalists, but absent or rarely heard from are the voices of spectators, athletes, and teams. As a result, we do not always know what other local elites thought about these Games. In this way Huebner has failed to analyze the social role athletes and teams play as models for other sections of society that observe them and would like to have the same quality of life. The modernization process could be measured with the help of statistics detailing the number of athletes or spectators for each activity or each event, the number of sport newspapers, or even sales of sports equipment. What have been the positive benefits of these Games for society as a whole? Is it possible to detect a “domino effect” of local sporting activities after these massive events? This excellent study would benefit from analysis of the audience or the daily lives of athletes to confirm or reverse his conclusions. The author’s main purpose was to study the extent to which it can be said that PanAsian sport played a part in the emergence of modern Asia. In addition, he is particularly interested in defining a single common Asian identity. He has therefore deliberated over the means used and the steps required to fulfill this objective. Who was really involved in this...

A distant finish line for women: gender and the sports press in Portugal (1996-2016)

In this paper we examine the overall evolution of the coverage of women’s sports by the three Portuguese daily sports newspapers (A Bola, O Jogo and Record), as well as the potential sexual objectification of female athletes. To this end, we conducted an analysis of the news and photographs published by these three daily newspapers over a period of 20 years (1996-2016), based on a random sample. A total of 2,414 news items, including 1,207 articles and 1,207 photographs, were collected from 186 different newspaper editions. The results do not show significant changes in the coverage of women’s sports nor a significant decrease in the sexualization of athletes, as signs of sexual objectification remain. The research suggests that policy makers should take active measures to promote equality between women and men in sports journalism.

Will the Crowd Go Wild?: Reimagining the Newspaper Sports Section for Digital Subscribers

ABSTRACT The economic troubles facing the media industry have led newspapers to search for new revenue models. At least one major American media company has made a big bet on digital subscriptions, including those that unbundle the daily report by content area. This includes the sale of sports-only packages. This paper uses interview data with five editors within the chain to explore how a shift in audience strategy may affect the day-to-day work of the newspaper sports section. This study finds general support for the initiative, especially because of the implicit revaluing of journalistic work. Yet it also reveals the limits to how sports departments are redefining work routines and beat structures to appeal to an online-only audience while staying within the bounds of journalistic professionalism. As the conception of the news audience shifts toward direct funding of reporting, the common practices of sports journalism appear generally static.

The Potential of Specialized Media in Public Health: Analysis of Health-Related Content in Sports Newspapers.

Sports-specialized newspapers are one of the print media with the highest number of readers in Spain. However, little is known about the health coverage in this type of print press. The aim of the study was to analyze any health-related material in sports newspaper coverage and describe the main characteristics. This is an observational and cross-sectional study, performed in relation to the three most read daily Spanish sports newspapers (MARCA, AS, SPORT). A descriptive analysis was conducted to assess the health-related materials selected after a careful search over a period of 30 days. During this time, a total of 815 units of analysis were identified. On average, 14.79% (n = 645 pages) of the full content (n = 4362) included health-related material. The Liga BBVA section was the most frequent to contain health-related content by a significant margin (p = 0.01). The main covered topics were injuries to soccer players (52%), doping (21%), and other diseases in athletes or their relatives (8.6%) with no significant differences (p = 0.10). Photographs (87.4%) were the most frequent visual material used in the health content, followed by infographics (12.6%). Press releases were the most frequent source of information (58%). Spanish sports newspapers include a high proportion of health-related material, especially in terms of providing detailed descriptions of athletes’ sport injuries, mainly related to soccer.

Bytomski „Sportowiec” i jego walka o granice zachodnie II Rzeczypospolitej

The aim of the article is to show the phenomenon of Bytom’s “Sportowiec”, a specific sports magazine, which was directly involved in plebiscite agitation in 1920 and 1921 and in the struggle to connect the largest part of Upper Silesia to a reborn Polish state. The analysis of press content, document analysis was used as a research method. In addition, a descriptive and comparative method was used. The Polish Plebiscytariat was aware that there was a strong and well-organized sports movement in Upper Silesia and that it should play its role in the fight against Germany for disputed territory. Therefore, at the Commissariat, the Faculty of Physical Education was established, which published “Sportowiec”. The first issue of “Sportowiec” appeared on August 4, 1920. The editorial team, apart from publishing the magazine, also worked in the field. There were lectures on the rules of playing football, judging, Polish language were taught. The “Sportowiec” was effectively crowding out German sports newspapers, both those published in Upper Silesia and reaching out from the Reich.

Anglicisms in Sports Lexicon – Semantic Extensions and Its Justification

This paper discusses the influence of English on the Serbian language in sports newspaper discourse, starting from theoretical assumptions of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics theory of stratification of language, changing of codes and linguistic borrowing, which raises the question of the existence of the Angloserbian language as a variety of the Serbian language, formed under the influence of English. As can be observed, the use of foreign words of English origin – Anglicisms will be the subject of our paper. In this regard, this paper should answer two questions: whether those Anglicisms are justified or not, what is their status in the language and the level of their semantic adaptation. Starting from the fact that Anglicisms can be classified into several groups: quite justified, through to justified and unjustified and totally unjustified, the paper looks into the justifiability of recent Anglicisms in the Serbian language and its semantic extension. The corpus will be limited to the electronic version of the news magazine, two Serbian dailies (Novosti and Blic) from 2017/18. As an auxiliary corpus in the survey we used dictionaries of new words. Adaptation of anglicisms at the semantic level comprises various changes of meaning that occur at the process of borrowing. Three types of semantic changes have been analysed in this paper, changes in semantic extension: zero extension, expansion of meaning and narrowing of meaning. A considerable number of loanwords undergo zero semantic extension; they preserve their original meaning. Expansion of meaning is a secondary change since loanwords in the borrowing language acquire new meanings unknown in the source language. The narrowing of meaning is a frequent semantic change. Today’s presence of Anglicisms in the Serbian language is, given the high levels of exposure of Serbian speakers to English, an inevitable and expected phenomenon. Some Serbian linguists fear that Anglicisms are slowly supplanting Serbian words, which might eventually lead to forgetting who we are. The cause of this is frequently seen in the lack of adequate and institutionalised care of the Serbian language, marked by a lack of a centrally controlled language policy and consistent language planning, and by an easily observable disregard for Serbian in public communication. Furthermore, they regret the lack of an active relationship with English loanwords, that is, the activation of the Serbian language’s own linguistic potential also allowing the creation of native equivalents to Anglicisms. Today’s presence of Anglicisms in Serbian is rarely seen as the wealth, or conversely, the detriment of the Serbian language. It is rather perceived to imply or indicate: that first, Serbia(n) is ensuing the globalisation of the modern world and the influence of English as a global language; and second the subsequent missing role of the media in the popularisation of Serbian equivalents to Anglicisms. To sum up, the parallel use of Anglicisms and their native equivalents creates space for the semantic and stylistic diversification of language and for a freedom of linguistic choice.

Las mujeres en la prensa deportiva española durante los juegos olímpicos de río 2016

Diversos estudios muestran que las mujeres están infrarrepresentadas en la prensa deportiva y que los medios de comunicación mantienen un discurso sexista. El propósito del presente trabajo ha sido analizar la representación de las mujeres en la prensa deportiva española durante los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016, donde la participación ha sido paritaria. Para ello se han analizado de forma cuantitativa las informaciones relativas a los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016 en Marca, As y Mundo Deportivo. Los resultados muestran que, aunque los hombres protagonizan la información deportiva relativa a los Juegos Olímpicos, las informaciones sobre mujeres ha sido mayor de la esperada y, salvo casos puntuales, no estereotipada, lo que lleva a afirmar que los Juegos Olímpicos suponen un marco importante para que los medios visibilicen el deporte femenino y que éstos deberían continuar en esa línea durante el resto del año.

A new sporting horizon: a content analysis of Super Netball newspaper coverage

A new professional netball competition in 2017 was part of a long-awaited boost for women’s sport in Australia. Netball has a significant footprint across the country, being the nation’s largest female participation team sport, and the national team is the reigning world champion. However, the sport has traditionally been underrepresented in both sports media and academic research. The new league was scheduled on free-to-air television after a landmark broadcast deal and the rise in media coverage reflected the growing commercial and public interest in female sport. As an example of this changing environment, it is important to examine what the coverage of women’s netball involves. This descriptive study utilises a content analysis to explore the newspaper sports reporting of the first season of the Super Netball League. Specifically, it measures the amount and tone of coverage, the types of stories and descriptions employed in articles, including mentions of men’s sport. Data have been collected from 703 articles from 15,335 stories in newspaper sports sections of nine national, metropolitan and regional publications. While newspaper coverage of netball was comparable with other sports in terms of professionalism and content, there was still only a small amount of stories.

REVIEW OF FOOTBALL PLAYER TRANSFERS IN SPORT PAGES OF NEWSPAPERS

Our goal in our study entitled “Football Transportation: how is taking place in the sports pages of newspapers?” presented the news of the transfer of players in newspapers and the realization rate apprehended by comparing how many of the news written by the newspaper press are meant to perform ethical dimension evaluations. This research frequently used the content analysis of media method. In this study, a descriptive survey model aimed at describing the nature of the facts as they are used. It was analyzed using content analysis method. The news in the newspapers were screened between 1 July 2015 and August 31, 2015. The study analyzed the daily newspapers which are being published in Turkey. Press advertising agency regularly according to data published in daily newspapers has been identified as 46. Two newspapers from the right wing of the political spectrum; Turkey and time, using the rhetoric of the Republic and one day left, the liberal media group Hurriyet and Posta newspapers, sports newspapers and Fanatik newspapers as Fotomac represented our study sample. In conclusion, according to the findings of the research we have achieved; 6-day transfer news newspaper sports pages, while the number of 304, 2 number of newspaper sports football transfer news 204, the total number is 508 8 newspaper's football transfer news. Transfer season in the transfer market newspapers have survived over the news for Besiktas, Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Trabzonspor have seen their primary news. Article visualizations:

How and Why Does a Scandal Influence Media Heterogeneity? Calciopoli and the Italian Newspapers

This paper contributes to the nascent organizational literature on scandals by analyzing the durable consequences of a scandal within a field. Specifically, we explore how media heterogeneity changes after a scandal. Understanding such a change is crucial because it affects how the entire field recovers from the disruption of a scandal, how the specific wrongdoers restore their public image, and the credibility of the same media outlets. Extant research suggests multiple and contrasting social processes at play after a scandal that can influence media heterogeneity. We study how the Calciopoli scandal, which affected the Italian football league in 2006, impacted the heterogeneity in reporting referees’ decisions among the three Italian national sports newspapers. We find that media heterogeneity increases after a scandal only for the teams involved in it. One key mechanism is the intensification in newspapers’ partisanship toward their local teams. Interestingly, we found that, despite this growth in partisanship, newspapers are largely able to not compromise the credibility of their reporting. In fact, when commenting on the same episodes, we find a low level of media heterogeneity. Therefore, partisanship arises mainly from reporting episodes omitted by other newspapers and not by holding different opinions on the same episodes.

Media Construction of Sport Celebrities as National Heroes

Within the broader media-sport nexus framework, sport is known for providing not only engaging performances for the entertainment market, but also important symbolic capital in terms of national identity and public diplomacy. The present paper looks at how these dimensions overlap, focusing on the centrality of the media logic within the dynamics of the social field of sport and its corollary celebrization imagery. The aim of the paper is, thus, to identify the contextual aspects and the legitimation strategies mobilized through media discourses in the overlap of the star status and the national hero image of a sport actor. When and how does media crown an athlete with the national hero aura? What does this national hero status involve in terms of identity and identification mechanisms? Focusing on a corpus of 310 online articles and 12 Facebook highlights published by two main Romanian sport newspapers during the 2014 Roland Garros Tournament, the study discusses the media construction of the raising sport star, Simona Halep (i.e. first Romanian tennis player to enter Top 3 WTA), as national hero. The analysis examines not only the symbolic power of the sport performances as national identity resources and celebrity input, but also the engaging deliberative spaces that emerge along with the national hero frame and the hybrid form of civic celebrity practices involved in legitimizing it.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and soccer: an internet survey of 29 Italian players.

Previous epidemiological studies reported a significantly higher risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in Italian male soccer players. As a consequence, sports newspapers and news agencies focused on this issue and spread the news of 51 male soccer players with a reported diagnosis of ALS. We searched news on male Italian national soccer players with a reported diagnosis of ALS quoted from January 1, 1950 to July 31, 2016 in at least two Internet web sites or in books by journalists. A total of 39 male soccer players with a reported diagnosis of ALS were identified. Subjects were born from 1905 to 1973, 32 were currently deceased, 6 were still living, while the status of 1 player was unknown. All gathered information was available for 29 soccer players. The group had a mean age at diagnosis of 45.3 ± 12.2 years, a mean age at onset of symptoms of 46.4 ± 12.1 years, and a mean age at death of 50.9 ± 12.3 years. A significant inverse correlation between year of birth and age at onset of symptoms was observed, with a younger age at onset of symptoms in soccer players born in more recent years (r = -0.65, p < 0.01). Italian male soccer players with a reported diagnosis of ALS have a significantly younger age at diagnosis when compared to other European patients with ALS. Results support a possible relationship between soccer and the risk of ALS. We believe that further research is urgently needed in this field.

Коммуникативный потенциал спортивной газеты в медийном Интернет-пространстве: событие, факт, оперативность

Коммуникативный потенциал спортивной газеты в медийном Интернет-пространстве: событие, факт, оперативность

스포츠 신문사의 불법 게재물에 대한 규제 방안

스포츠 신문사의 불법 게재물에 대한 규제 방안

Forgotten Athletes and Token Reporters: Analyzing the Gender Bias in Sports Journalism

ABSTRACTThis study considers the coverage of women’s sports and the involvement of women in newspaper sports journalism in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Results of a content analysis (N = 3,382) show that the coverage of, and professional opportunities for, women and men are far from equal in sports media. Further, results of a survey of professional journalists (N = 298) show that despite a widespread acknowledgment of the inequities that exist, male journalists remain significantly less likely than female journalists to report supporting an increased role for women within

Football and Romanian Masculinity. How it is constructed by the Sport Media?

Abstract The present article is focusing on hegemonic masculinity represented and expressed by the professional footballers. Based on the empirical study using text analysis of leading articles published in central Romanian sport newspapers I draw the ideal-typical picture of the normative model of Romanian hegemonic masculinity in which the domestic coaches play a determinant role. Their personal-individual and collective-professional features like determination, steadiness, honesty, pride, mutual respect, knowledge, tenaciousness, sense of vocation, solidarity, spirit of fighting are the corner points of the constructed Romanian manhood, or hegemonic masculinity during social change. The manliness is traced along the inner characteristic of the coaches but in strong contradiction with the foreign trainers. In this respect I can state that football is connected not only with masculinity but in some respect also with the national characteristics embodied by the Romanian coaches especially those working home.

Scoring Live Tweets on the Beat

Newspaper sports beat reporters have experienced challenges to their workflow as social media, such as Twitter, has emerged as an essential tool in the reporting of live-game events. The purpose of this study was to assess the ways newspaper sports beat reporters meet consumers’ needs for information during these live events. Using retweets and likes as measures of engagement, this study found that newspaper sports beat reporters’ Twitter content during live-game coverage was liked and retweeted more frequently when it included analysis, opinion, entertainment, and visual content. By contrast, tweets containing only play-by-play outcomes were retweeted and liked significantly less than average. This study suggests that newspaper sports beat reporters should capitalize on their exclusivity and insider access to create Twitter content beyond mere play-by-play results that are typically available to those following the game through more traditional means such as television, radio, or in person. These strategies could distinguish newspaper sports beat reporters in an increasingly crowded sports media landscape. These findings may also be applied to the work of journalists beyond the sports realm.

국내 첫 스포츠신문의 창간과 일간스포츠의 변천

국내 첫 스포츠신문의 창간과 일간스포츠의 변천

Negativity as Criteria for Newsworthiness in Malaysian Newspaper Sports Corpus

This study is an attempt to identify criteria for newsworthiness in Malaysian sports newspapers. It also seeks to find out how the media shapes the perception of Malaysians through sports news stories. Employing a corpus-based approach, with The Reuters Corpus Volume 1 and Malaysian English Sports News Corpus, the researchers of the study conducted a thematic analysis to look for recurring patterns that would detect the criteria for newsworthiness in the headlines and content of the corpus. It was found that football dominates the pages of the newspaper, and negativity, reference to elite people and nations are the most prominent news values. The patterns of language reveal a very negative sports world in which achievement and winning are stressed at all cost. Players and coaches are pressured to do well or they risk losing their jobs. Scandals are running rampant in the sports world as cases of corruption, drug abuse and bad behaviors among athletes and coaches are consistently reported in the news. Following McKane’s (2014) categorization of newsworthiness criteria, and using snowballing sampling method, 85 UKM students were asked to show their criteria for newsworthiness on a questionnaire, which resulted in a mismatch between the news stories and the readers’ expectations.

The coverage of female athletes at London 2012 summer games in Turkish sports media

Female athletes and women’s sports were disregarded or ignored by the media in many countries including Turkey. The purpose of this research was to analyze the gender role portrayals of female athletes in the Turkish news media. A content analysis was conducted in 1001 articles covering the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games by two Turkish sports newspapers, Fanatik and Fotomaç. Findings revealed that Turkish sports media favoured male athletes in general, in terms of number of articles devoted to them. Female athletes were depicted as mostly participating in individual sports, both in the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (71.6% and 95.2%, respectively). Athletic achievement was mostly covered in the content of articles (n=575). While athletes participating in the Olympic Games were depicted as active in articles for both genders, athletes participating in the Paralympic Games were depicted as passive.