[ecrea] cfp Sports Journalism - Institute of Communication Ethics October 2017

Call for papers for this year’s conference.

*Sports Journalism: ethical vacuum or ethical minefield?*

Institute of Communication Ethics Annual Conference

27 October 2017, Frontline Club, London W2 1QJ

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Sports content is a crucial aspect of many media organisations’ output. 
But while the ethical issues surrounding news journalism are closely 
scrutinised, the ethical dilemmas facing sports journalism are often 
neglected, or even unacknowledged. Issues of media regulation remain 
highly contentious in the UK, but how does sports output and the conduct 
of sports journalism departments fit into this debate? Is the balance of 
power between sports journalists and sports media relations executives 
shifting decisively in favour of the latter? How have sports journalists 
responded to the issues arising from the digital revolution?

The conference aims to provide a space for analysis and discussion on 
the varied ethical issues confronting sports journalists. Topics might 
then include:

·Too cosy a relationship? Sports journalists and sports PR managers

·Does sports journalism need a separate industry code?

·Taking the (click)bait: are website visitor targets undermining 
high-quality sports journalism?

·Covering diversity in sports – issues of representation in sports coverage

·Using social media as a sports journalist: the ethical issues

·Sports journalism and ‘entrapment’: the ethical issues involved in an 
undercover investigation

·Branded content – is it in danger of killing independent sports journalism?

·“Fans with typewriters”. How prepared are sports journalists to cover 
‘hard’ news on top of the regular diet of press conferences and matches?

·How should ethics and regulation be taught to sports journalists, both 
in industry and on training courses?

·Fan sites: when citizen sports journos challenge the news values of 
corporate media’s sports coverage

·Sports celebrities – and the ‘human interest’ bias of the media

·Local sports coverage – the necessary manufacture of ‘imagined 
communities’?

These issues – and more – will be of interest to academics, journalists, 
sports media relations practitioners and students working in the field 
of sports communications.

Please send 200-word abstracts to

Dr Daragh Minogue ((daragh.minogue /at/ stmarys.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(daragh.minogue /at/ stmarys.ac.uk)>) and Tom Bradshaw 
((tbradshaw /at/ glos.ac.uk)) <mailto:(tbradshaw /at/ glos.ac.uk))>by 1 July 2017.


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