“Part of the Team”: In-House Sports Reporters Navigating the Journalistic Periphery
In recent years, the sports communication landscape has seen changes in terms of who occupies the role of sports reporter. In-house reporters, or sports communicators employed by specific clubs, teams, or leagues, now contribute content to the sports media landscape. This study explores the complica...
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| author | Gregory P. Perreault Daniel Nölleke Monica Crawford Ella Hackett |
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| description | In recent years, the sports communication landscape has seen changes in terms of who occupies the role of sports reporter. In-house reporters, or sports communicators employed by specific clubs, teams, or leagues, now contribute content to the sports media landscape. This study explores the complicated relationship between in-house reporters’ self-perceived professional identities and in-houses reporters’ perceptions of their audiences through the lens of Bourdieusian field theory. As such, it sees in-house reporters as peripheral actors negotiating the boundaries of the sports journalism field. Through semi-structured interviews with 28 in-house sports reporters from the United States and Austria, our findings suggest that in-house reporters conceive of themselves both in relation to professional journalism and as members of the sports establishment. Furthermore, they note an ambiguous relationship to their audience, which is both reliant upon the reporters’ work, and, at times, highly critical of it. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8f0cd13a34944618ac900db9ae9e05982024-03-27T13:49:51ZengMDPI AGJournalism and Media2673-51722024-02-015120321810.3390/journalmedia5010014“Part of the Team”: In-House Sports Reporters Navigating the Journalistic PeripheryGregory P. Perreault0Daniel Nölleke1Monica Crawford2Ella Hackett3Zimmerman School for Advertising & Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USAInstitute of Communication and Media Research, German Sport University of Cologne, 50933 Köln, GermanyHubbard School of Journalism, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USAZimmerman School for Advertising & Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USAIn recent years, the sports communication landscape has seen changes in terms of who occupies the role of sports reporter. In-house reporters, or sports communicators employed by specific clubs, teams, or leagues, now contribute content to the sports media landscape. This study explores the complicated relationship between in-house reporters’ self-perceived professional identities and in-houses reporters’ perceptions of their audiences through the lens of Bourdieusian field theory. As such, it sees in-house reporters as peripheral actors negotiating the boundaries of the sports journalism field. Through semi-structured interviews with 28 in-house sports reporters from the United States and Austria, our findings suggest that in-house reporters conceive of themselves both in relation to professional journalism and as members of the sports establishment. Furthermore, they note an ambiguous relationship to their audience, which is both reliant upon the reporters’ work, and, at times, highly critical of it.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/5/1/14in-house reportersteam mediafield theoryperipheral actorsaudiencessports communication |
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| title | “Part of the Team”: In-House Sports Reporters Navigating the Journalistic Periphery |
| title_full | “Part of the Team”: In-House Sports Reporters Navigating the Journalistic Periphery |
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| title_short | “Part of the Team”: In-House Sports Reporters Navigating the Journalistic Periphery |
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| topic | in-house reporters team media field theory peripheral actors audiences sports communication |
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