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Sports Journalism is a comprehensive guide to the purpose, principles and practice of this unique profession. Now in a revised and updated second edition, including new material on social media and the rise of online journalism, this is the only book to explore the fundamentals of sports reporting across every media platform. Combining an introduction to practical skills, contextual discussion of the changing media environment, and important case studies, including the ground-breaking story of Lance Armstrong, and laced with revealing anecdotes from the author's own thirty years' experience of sport journalism, this book
is the ultimate insider's guide and an invaluable student companion.
List of contents
Preface Acknowledgements Glossary 1. The hardest job ever craved: An almost shameless confession 2. Batting and balling: A short history of sportswriting 3. Whose agenda is it anyway? Sports journalism in the digital age 4. The knowledge 5. Then, in the final minute: The match report 6. Breaking the news: The news story 7. ‘Hi,’ said Muhammad, amiably: The interview 8. Beneath the mud: The feature 9. Me, the jury: Expressing yourself (responsibly) 10. The advantage of distance: Periodical journalism 11. Live and exclusive: Broadcasting 12. The safety net: Editing and sub-editing 13. Views from the top 14. St Francis of Hereford: Frank Keating, heart and soul of sportswriting
About the author
Rob Steen is a senior lecturer and co-leader of the BA (Hons) Sport Journalism course at the University of Brighton. An award-winning author, journalist and sportswriter for more than 30 years, he has written for, among others, the
Sunday Times (where he was deputy sports editor), the
Guardian, the
Independent, the
FT, the
Melbourne Age, the
Hindustan Times and
India Today as well as
Sport in Society and the
International Journal of the History of Sport. A longstanding columnist for
Cricinfo, winner of the 2005 UK section of the EU Journalism Award "for diversity, against discrimination", he has written more than a dozen sports books, including
Spring, Summer, Autumn (runner-up for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year),
David Gower: A Man Out of Time (winner of the Cricket Society Literary Award) and his latest,
Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport, which was shortlisted for the 2014 William Hill award
