Inside the sports pages : work routines, professional ideologies, and the manufacture of sports news / Mark Douglas Lowes.
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TextPublisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (141 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781442676183 (e-book)
- 070.4/49796 21
- PN4914.S65 .L694 1999
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The working world of contemporary sports journalism through the eyes of the reporters, editors, and athletes who inhabit it. An account and analysis of the ideology behind sports news.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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CHOICE Review
Making use of examples from Canadian newspapers, Lowes examines the behind-the-scenes aspects of press reporting of the world of professional and school sports. The author extends the methods used in the study of "hard" news to the coverage of sports, providing an ethnographic analysis of sports writers at a paper he refers to simply as the Big City Examiner, in truth a metropolitan Canadian daily. Chapters discuss the selling of spectacle, work routines inside the newsroom, working the sports beat, the routine sources of sports news, the relations between reporters and their sources, and the ideology of sports writing. Lowes bases his discussion on interviews and reproduces the questions in an appendix. Although brief, the study adds considerably to the literature on the sports-journalism process, offering insight into which stories--and players--get covered and why, and how changing patterns of journalistic practice generally are having an impact on the sports pages. Undergraduates through faculty. C. Sterling; George Washington UniversityThere are no comments on this title.