NEWSLETTER 9 SEPTEMBER 2005

1) Greek sports editor speaks of violent attack at Play the Game

2) Sports journalism: The biggest survey ever and a new US study

3) Recent additions to Play the Game’s Knowledge Bank

1) GREEK SPORTS EDITOR SPEAKS OF VIOLENT ATTACK AT PLAY THE GAME

In October last year, sports editor Philippos Syrigos of the Athens daily Eleftherotypia was brutally attacked when he left a radio station after a radio show. Thanks to emergency surgery he survived and in November he will attend Play the Game 2005 to talk about the price of reporting the dark side of sport.

See Play the Game’s list of sports journalists, who have been attacked, killed or endured legal action because of their journalism.

Read also the story of Zaw Thet Htwe, a Burmese sports editor who was sentenced to death for his coverage of football.

Chris Cramer, managing director of CNN International, insisted that his reporters had hostile-environment training before going to cover the Olympic Games in Athens. Learn why from the website of the International News Safety Institute

2) SPORTS JOURNALISM: THE BIGGEST SURVEY EVER AND A NEW US STUDY

At the conference in November, Play the Game will present the results of the most wide-ranging survey of sports coverage ever undertaken. Academics and journalists from nine different countries have been analysing national and regional newspapers and have contributed data from more than 10.000 articles to the survey.

In the US, the Project on Excellence in Journalism has just published its own study of how sport is reported in newspapers. It concludes that sports pages in the US are a passive and reactive space dominated by game previews and recaps with little room for enterprise reportage.

Go directly to the study

3) RECENT ADDITIONS TO PLAY THE GAME’S KNOWLEDGE BANK

We have added a new feature to our website to make it easier for you to see what is new in our Knowledge Bank. Since the end of August, we have added six new items.

See the list

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