The Coverage of Opposing Events: Brazil’s Sporting Mega-events Preparation and the Host Community Civil Protests

Sebastião, Sónia Pedro; Lemos, Ana Isabel; Soares, Isabel

doi:10.1057/9781137574282_5

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“…Dayan and Katz (1992) suggested that such massive live media events endow audiences with a sense of historical significance, while broadcast journalists "suspend their normally critical stance and treat their subject with respect, even awe" (7). Scholars have since shown that event coverage is not monolithic across time or space (Couldry et al, 2010;Puijk, 2000;Rivenburgh, 2010), and that the media event is co-produced by many voices beyond the official broadcasters, with legacy print media, digital publications, and social media offering potential avenues for alternative narratives and contests over meaning (Bacallao-Pino, 2016;Bailey et al, 2017;Sebastião et al, 2016).…”

Section: Media Event Spectacle Meets Sports Journalismmentioning

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Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 2020

Robertson

2023

Communication & Sport

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How Olympics reporters understand the Games and their role within them has implications for what and how they report. At stake in journalists’ storytelling choices are the representations of the Olympics themselves as well as representations of the host city and country — representations that can serve to bolster powerful institutions and dominant ideologies, or to challenge them and open new opportunities for change. Despite the importance of journalists to the production of the Olympic spectacle, there has been relatively little research that examines how Olympics reporters think about what it means to report on the Games. This paper explores what journalists’ perspectives and experiences can reveal about the opportunities and challenges for reporting from a “critical stance” at the Games. I highlight three key themes from interviews with journalists who reported on Tokyo 2020 for influential English-language publications: the role of awe in Olympics reporting; impressions of what readers want; and the role of reporters’ experiences at past Olympic Games. I suggest that at Tokyo 2020 there were more opportunities for critical reporting that portrayed Olympics problems as exceptional, rather than structural, although the space for structural critique may be growing.

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Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 2020

Robertson

2023

Communication & Sport

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Contesting the brand: a media analysis of the image of Rio de Janeiro as host of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Dutch language newspapers

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Gato

2018

European Journal for Sport and Society

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The Coverage of Opposing Events: Brazil’s Sporting Mega-events Preparation and the Host Community Civil Protests

Cited by 2 publications

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Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 2020

Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 2020

Contesting the brand: a media analysis of the image of Rio de Janeiro as host of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Dutch language newspapers

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