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Knut Helland

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Knut Helland
Professor in media studies, University of Bergen, Norway

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University of Bergen, Norway

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Challenging the News Ideals: Sports Journalism, Attraction and Media Rights - Play the Game 2005 (PP Pdf.)

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Knut Helland is Professor of Media Studies at the Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, and a Visiting Professor in Media and Journalism at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Among his research interests are news and journalism, and relations between sports and the media. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester (1994). Since 2000 he has been a Nordic correspondent for literature reviews in European Journal of Communication. He has also been head of the National Council of Media Studies, and has had a number other assignments related to research and research policies in Scandinavia