1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism
Introduction
Jed Novick
1 Why Sports Journalism Matters
Rob Steen
Part I: The Trade
2 Sport and Journalism in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Mike Huggins
3 The Art of Sportswriting
Rob Steen and Huw Richards
4 Newspapers
Guy Hodgson
5 Tabloids
Rob Shepherd
6 Agencies
John Mehaffey
7 Regional Newspapers
Graham Hiley
8 Fanzines
Huw Richards
9 Multiplatform Sports Journalism
Mark Barden
10 Broadcasting: Interview with Martin Tyler
Adrienne Rosen
11 Twitter
Simon McEnnis
12 Public Relations
Owen Evans
13 The Sports Editor: Good cop or bad?
Paul Weaver
14 The Sub-editor
Charles Morris
15 Humour
Rob Steen
16 Statistics and Records
Huw Richards
17 When Dreams fall Apart
Rob Steen
Half-time Interval: Interview with David Lacey and Patrick Barclay
Rob Steen
Part II: Issues
18 Race
Rob Steen & Jed Novick
19 Sexuality
Neil Farrington
20 Homophobia: Interview with Alex Kay-Jelski
Neil Farrington
21 Money
Peter Berlin
22 National Identity
Peter English
23 The Olympics
Gareth Edwards
24 Football Hooliganism
Roger Domeneghetti
25 Football managers and the Press
Stephen Wagg
26 Who Owns the Narrative?
Sam Duncan and Ian Glenn
27 Caster Semenya
John Price
28 Lance Armstrong
Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg
Part III: Trailblazers
29 Frank Keating
Rob Steen
30 Hugh McIlvanney
Kevin Mitchell
31 Vikki Orvice
Steven Howard
32 John Samuel
Matthew Engel
Part IV: The Future
33 A New Golden Age?
Raymond Boyle
34 Diversity
Carrie Dunn
35 Reporting
Toby Miller
Biography
Rob Steen is an author, journalist and sportswriter, and former senior lecturer and co-leader of the BA (Hons) Sport Journalism course at the University of Brighton, UK. He has been cricket correspondent for the Financial Times and deputy sports editor for the Sunday Times. He has written for many other newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Independent and Independent on Sunday, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Age (Melbourne), India Today and Hindustan Times. He won the 1995 Cricket Society Literary Award, the UK section of the 2005 EU Journalism Award "for diversity, against discrimination", and has been shortlisted twice for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, and once for the Lord Aberdare Prize for Sports History.
Jed Novick is an author, journalist and sportswriter, as well as senior lecturer on the BA (Hons) Sport Journalism and Journalism courses at the University of Brighton, UK. He has written for The Times (sportswriter), The Independent (TV editor), The Guardian (arts writer), The Observer (deputy arts editor) and the Daily Express (arts editor), as well as a number of magazines and journals.
Huw Richards has been rugby correspondent of the Financial Times, cricket correspondent of the International Herald Tribune, staff reporter on the Times Higher Education Supplement and associate lecturer at London Metropolitan and St Mary’s Twickenham Universities and the London College of Communication. He has also been shortlisted for the William Hill prize and the Aberdare Prize for Sports History.
