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- Title
Just How They Drew It Up: How In-House Reporters Fit Themselves Into the Sports Media System.
- Authors
Mirer, Michael
- Abstract
This paper explores how in-house sports reporters—those who write for team- and league-branded websites—locate themselves within the sports media production complex. It builds from perspectives on professionalism that view it as a dynamic process of defining boundaries and building relationships between systemic stakeholders. The interview data presented here find that in-house reporters accentuate professional similarities to beat reporters and use this identity to build unique roles in sports organizations' corporate structures. This push to define themselves as a distinct job category within the constellation of sports media professions speaks to the active work occupational groups engage in, and is reshaping the media system. The paper argues for a broader reconsideration of professional definitions, actors, and relationships within the sports media system as digital technology and other changes have altered preexisting relationships.
- Subjects
DIGITAL technology; DIGITAL media; SPORTS participation; SPORTS; SPORTS journalism; PROFESSIONAL identity
- Publication
Communication & Sport, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 3, p438
- ISSN
2167-4795
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/21674795211049412