Call for papers for this year’s conference.
Sports Journalism: ethical vacuum or ethical minefield?
Institute of Communication Ethics Annual Conference
27 October 2017, Frontline Club, London W2 1QJ
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sports content is a crucial aspect of many media organisations’ output. But while the
ethical issues surrounding news journalism are closely scrutinised, the ethical dilemmas facing sports journalism are often neglected, or even unacknowledged. Issues of media regulation remain highly contentious in the UK, but how does sports output and the
conduct of sports journalism departments fit into this debate? Is the balance of power between sports journalists and sports media relations executives shifting decisively in favour of the latter? How have sports journalists responded to the issues arising
from the digital revolution?
The conference aims to provide a space for analysis and discussion on the varied ethical
issues confronting sports journalists. Topics might then include:
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Too cosy a relationship? Sports journalists and sports PR managers
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Does sports journalism need a separate industry code?
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Taking the (click)bait: are website visitor targets undermining high-quality sports journalism?
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Covering diversity in sports – issues of representation in sports coverage
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Using social media as a sports journalist: the ethical issues
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Sports journalism and ‘entrapment’: the ethical issues involved in an undercover investigation
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Branded content – is it in danger of killing independent sports journalism?
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“Fans with typewriters”. How prepared are sports journalists to cover ‘hard’ news on top of the regular diet of press conferences and matches?
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How should ethics and regulation be taught to sports journalists, both in industry and on training
courses?
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Fan sites: when citizen sports journos challenge the news values of corporate media’s sports
coverage
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Sports celebrities – and the ‘human interest’ bias of the media
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Local sports coverage – the necessary manufacture of ‘imagined communities’?
These issues – and more – will be of interest to academics, journalists,
sports media relations practitioners and students working in the field of sports communications.
Please send 200-word abstracts to
Dr Daragh Minogue ([log in to unmask])
and Tom Bradshaw ([log in to unmask])
by 1 July 2017.
Dr. Fiona Thompson|Executive Dean - Quality
York St John University | Lord Mayor’s Walk | York | YO31 7EX
Tel: 01904 876725| PA Rachel Zaino
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