Inside the Sports Pages: Work Routines, Professional Ideologies, and the Manufacture of Sports News - Hardcover

Lowes, Mark Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802043593 ISBN 13: 9780802043597

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1999

Synopsis

Inside the Sports Pages explores the working world of contemporary sports journalism through the eyes of the reporters, editors, athletes and media-relations people who inhabit it. In this first comprehensive study of the work routines and professional ideologies involved in the manufacture of sports news, Mark Douglas Lowes presents a detailed and richly textured ethnographic account of life on the sports desk at a major Canadian daily newspaper. His wide-ranging analysis considers the role of the 'audience commodity' in sports news production, the dynamics of the newsroom, and the complex relations between reporters and their routine sources on the sports beat. The book concludes with an assessment of the ideological nature of sports news, and argues that sports coverage functions primarily as a promotional vehicle for the North American 'major league' sports industry. It will be of interest to anyone concerned about how the media report sports news- and the way they leave some of it unreported.

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Review:

'Lowes' book is a pioneering work that sets the standard for future studies in the area of sports print journalism ... This book would be a marvellous addition to a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate classes.'

- Ken Kirkwood - Canadian Journal of Sociology Online

'The most compelling sports book I've read in some time.'

- David Leach - Monday Magazine

'Inside the Sports Pages will prove to be of immense interest to sports fans, and students of popular culture, media, and journalism.'

- Midwest Book Review

'This study adds considerably to the literature on the sports-journalism process.'

- C. Sterling - Choice

Synopsis:

A comprehensive study of the work routines and professional ideology the make up the working world of contemporary sports journalism, as seen through the eyes of the reporters, editors, athletes, and media relations people who inhabit it.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0802043593
• ISBN 13: 9780802043597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 150