Exclusionary Practices in Sport Journalism

Abstract

The relatively low percentage of women and minority sport journalists suggests dynamics of exclusion. We used J. Acker's (1990Acker's ( , 1992 theory about gender and organizations to examine several interrelated processes in the construction of gender and ethnicity in sport journalism. Acker named 4 processes that inform these constructions: division of labor, images and discourses, interactions, and identity work. We held semistructured interviews with 15 experienced journalists/editors who worked in the sport departments of either national newspapers, commercial television, or public television. The results indicate that, although the journalists asserted that the meanings given to their ways of doing journalism are ideologically neutral, these 4 processes do construct gender and ethnicity in overlapping and interrelated ways. In the discussion, we place these results in their context and focus on this contradiction between desirable and actual neutrality.

Reflections on Communication and Sport

“…. whilst simultaneously disenfranchising women's sports'' (Claringbould, Knoppers & Elling, 2004;Lowes, 1999;Scott-Chapman, 2012, p. 204;Theberge & Cronk, 1986).…”

Race/ethnicity, sport and the research/policy relationship. The Dutch context

“…The name Meedoen allochtone jeugd door sport was used, however, for most of the years the programme was carried out. 2. Notable examples in the Dutch context are studies by Elling (2007) and Claringbould, Knoppers, and Elling (2004).…”

La presencia invisible de la mujer deportista en la prensa deportiva española. Análisis de las portadas de "Marca", "As", "Mundo Deportivo" y "Sport" (2010-2015

“…En primer lugar, cabe tener en cuenta la división del trabajo (Claringbould et al, 2004) y la infrarrepresentación estructural de las mujeres en las organizaciones mediáticas (Fagoaga y Secanella, 1984;Gallego y Del Río, 1993;Abril, 1998;Gallego, 1998;López Díez, 2004). A pesar del progresivo aumento de la presencia de mujeres en la profesión periodística (Soriano, Díez y Cantón, 2005), la segregación en las redacciones y, muy especialmente en las secciones de deportes (Hardin y Shain, 2006) es claramente vigente y se extiende a múltiples contextos periodísticos, tal como demuestran investigaciones en Estados Unidos (APSE, 2013;Hardin, 2005Hardin, y 2013Hardin y Shain, 2005a, 2005by 2006Hardin y Whiteside, 2009), Reino Unido (Franks y O'Neill, 2014) o España (Gutiérrez Pequeño, 2008;López Díez, 2011).…”