“Feeling Much Smaller than You Know You Are”: The Fragmented Professional Identity of Female Sports Journalists

Hardin, Marie; Shain, Stacie

doi:10.1080/07393180600933147

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“…In a study of US newspaper sports departments, Hardin and Shain (2006) Monitoring Project, which found that men still outnumber women in newsrooms everywhere but New…”

Section: Women In Sports Journalismmentioning

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“…Adrianne Blue, one of the few female sports journalists on a UK national newspaper in the 1980s and 1990s, says that her experience echoes these views (PhD critical analysis, 2012). And journalists interviewed for a study on the career-related decisions of female newspaper sports journalists 21 in the USA acknowledged some negative gender-related experiences, but tended to minimize these experiences (Hardin and Whiteside, 2009 (Hargreaves, 1994 in Hardin andShain, 2006). Whatever Blue (2012) and others claim, it is hard to avoid concluding that conscious or unconscious misogyny must also be operating in sports newsrooms, with the largely male workforce tending to appoint new recruits in their own image.…”

Section: Differences Between Newspapersmentioning

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Women reporting sport: Still a man’s game?

Franks¹,

O’Neill

2014

Journalism

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Past research has found that sports journalism has remained an area of gender disparity. However, in recent years, female sports broadcasters have increased their visibility in the UK. By comparison, while newspaper sports coverage has increased rapidly in recent years, how much progress have women sports writers made in the print media? This research first examines the current visibility of women sports journalists in the sports section of the national UK press, counting by-lines to examine the prevalence of female sports writers. Secondly, a study is carried out to see if the 2012 London Olympic Games had any effect on the proportion of female sports writers in the UK press, by comparing sports by-lines in a sample six months before the Olympics and six months after. Furthermore, these results are compared to a decade earlier to see if the situation has improved over a longer period of time. Key words Equality

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“…In a study of US newspaper sports departments, Hardin and Shain (2006) Monitoring Project, which found that men still outnumber women in newsrooms everywhere but New…”

Section: Women In Sports Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Differences Between Newspapersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women reporting sport: Still a man’s game?

Franks¹,

O’Neill

2014

Journalism

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“…Accordingly, their analysis of sport is a conduit for promoting their own masculinity (Nylund 2004). Stepping out of line with masculinity-establishing discourse, or (worse) criticizing masculine practices in sport, diminishes the masculine capital of the individual journalist, potentially polluting their ability to access elite level athletes (Hardin and Shain 2006). Thus, these are men who symbolically flirt with hegemonic masculinity; men Connell (p. 79) describes as ''complicit.''…”

Section: Sport Journalists Upholding the Masculine Warrior Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Media Contestation of Masculinity and Head Trauma in the National Football League

Anderson

Kian

2012

Men and Masculinities

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American football has long been central to the construction of masculinity in the United States. Of the multiple masculine scripts promoting professional players' hegemonic masculine status, sacrificing one's body for the sake of sporting glory is a key tenet. Sport journalists have traditionally used their media platform to reify this social script, an act which simultaneously promotes their own masculine capital. However, this article investigates a crack in this hegemonic system. Through a media analysis of the reporting on Aaron Rodgers' self-withdrawal (after hitting his head) from an important National Football League (NFL) game, we argue that increasing cultural awareness as to the devastating effects of concussions, in the form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, combined with a softening of American masculinity is beginning to permit some prominent players to distance themselves from the self-sacrifice component of sporting masculinity. Concerning concussions, we conclude major sport media are beginning to support the notion of health over a masculine warrior narrative.

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“…''Media impact'' studies fail to address the people and processes involved in production, and research is needed to understand how producers use, develop, and give up agency in racialized news production. Sociological research on news producers themselves is limited (with notable exceptions by Newkirk, 2000;Hardin & Shain, 2006;Entman, 1997;Gans, 1979), and focuses mostly on how structural forces shape the news process. In much of this literature, the human agency of news producers is diminished and replaced by a political economy theorizing that reduces them to mere players.…”

Section: Racism and The News: Media As Agents Of Racializationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“Coming to Terms with our Own Racism”: Journalists Grapple with the Racialization of their News

Drew¹

2010

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“Feeling Much Smaller than You Know You Are”: The Fragmented Professional Identity of Female Sports Journalists

Cited by 103 publications

References 15 publications

Women reporting sport: Still a man’s game?

Women reporting sport: Still a man’s game?

Examining Media Contestation of Masculinity and Head Trauma in the National Football League

“Coming to Terms with our Own Racism”: Journalists Grapple with the Racialization of their News

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