Setting the Agenda: The Mass Media and Public Opinion

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Inclusive masculinity: The changing nature of masculinities

This article reports on research that explores whether Australian newspaper sport journalists use Web 2.0, the second generation of the internet, in their work and, if they do, how. Semi-structured...

Web 2.0 platforms and the work of newspaper sport journalists

Studies of journalists' professional views have a long history in many countries around the globe. This has been no less the case in Australia, where a number of surveys of journalists have been conducted, particularly in recent years. Yet the only study so far able to lay claim to having studied a representative sample with a small error margin remains Henningham's account of Australian journalists in the early 1990s. Clearly, Australian journalism has experienced a vast array of changes since that time, and it is crucial to provide a more up-to-date image of the profession. This study, based on telephone surveys with 605 Australian journalists, demonstrates some significant changes in the workforce. Journalists are now older, better educated, more experienced and arguably more left-leaning than 20 years ago. For the first time, women are in a majority, but they are still disadvantaged. Journalists' job satisfaction and ethical views are also discussed.

Journalists in times of change: evidence from a new survey of Australia's journalistic workforce

Substantial research indicates that women’s sports and female athletes gain only a small fraction of sports media coverage worldwide. Research that has examined why this is the case suggested this can be attributed to three particular factors that govern sports newswork: the male-dominated sports newsroom, ingrained assumptions about readership, and the systematic, repetitive nature of sports news. This study sought to explore women’s sports coverage using a different perspective, exploring cases where women’s sports gained coverage. It identified Australian newspapers that published more articles on women’s sports, relative to their competitors, and conducted interviews with both journalists and editors at these newspapers. It found that small, subtle changes to the three newswork elements that had previously relegated the coverage of women’s sports now facilitated it. This research provides evidence that, at least in some newspapers in Australia, sports newswork has developed to include the coverage of ...

Newswork, News Values, and Audience Considerations: Factors That Facilitate Media Coverage of Women’s Sports

This article presents key findings from a survey of Australian sport journalists, the first of its kind since Henningham's (1995) seminal study in the early 1990s. Australian sport journalists part...

A Profile of Australian Sport Journalists (Revisited)

Two Australian football clubs—St Kilda and the Sydney Swans—played the first Pride Game in Australian professional sport in 2016 to support and include the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, inte...

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A Profile of Australian Sport Journalists (Revisited)

Football, Media, and Homophobia: Public Framing of the First Pride Game in the Australian Football League: