Preface Acknowledgements Glossary 1. The hardest job ever craved: An almost shameless confession 2. Batting and balling: A short history of sportswriting 3. Whose agenda is it anyway? Sports journalism in the digital age 4. The knowledge 5. Then, in the final minute: The match report 6. Breaking the news: The news story 7. ‘Hi,’ said Muhammad, amiably: The interview 8. Beneath the mud: The feature 9. Me, the jury: Expressing yourself (responsibly) 10. The advantage of distance: Periodical journalism 11. Live and exclusive: Broadcasting 12. The safety net: Editing and sub-editing 13. Views from the top 14. St Francis of Hereford: Frank Keating, heart and soul of sportswriting
Biography
Rob Steen is a senior lecturer and co-leader of the BA (Hons) Sport Journalism course at the University of Brighton. An award-winning author, journalist and sportswriter for more than 30 years, he has written for, among others, the Sunday Times (where he was deputy sports editor), the Guardian, the Independent, the FT, the Melbourne Age, the Hindustan Times and India Today as well as Sport in Society and the International Journal of the History of Sport. A longstanding columnist for Cricinfo, winner of the 2005 UK section of the EU Journalism Award "for diversity, against discrimination", he has written more than a dozen sports books, including Spring, Summer, Autumn (runner-up for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year), David Gower: A Man Out of Time (winner of the Cricket Society Literary Award) and his latest, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport, which was shortlisted for the 2014 William Hill award
"This text would be best used by those already with an understanding of journalism practices and rules. … It could also serve as a strong second text in a course and certainly leaves ample opportunity for class discussion about chapter readings. The text would appeal most strongly to those who regularly read sports news and publications and are prepared to take a deeper dive into the discipline."
Keith Strudler, Marist College, USA, International Journal of Sport Communication, 2015, 8, 519 -521.
