Marika Sherwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 98177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marika Sherwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marika |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherwood |
| SIGNATURE | SHERWOOD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3671-3304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 240 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Buzz of Brisbane 2032
Brisbane will stage a more regionally focused Olympics and Paralympics in 2032 when it follows in the footsteps of a series of mega-city hosts. In this new environment, in which there are challenges finding nations willing even to bid for the event, it is important to understand how sentiment is expressed towards this Games edition, which is being promoted as delivering a sustainable legacy while experiencing different demands, levels of buzz, an…
It’s ‘Gut Feeling’ Mostly
There is evidence that online hate speech is increasing significantly on social media pages related to sport, but less research on how sport and media organisations are managing it. This research explored the management of content moderation in Australian sport media through qualitative interviews (16) with social media and communications staff in Australian sport and media organisations. It found that content moderation, or the moderating and re…
What We Don’t, but Should Know
Media in the News
As the primary mechanism through which journalistic labour is organized within a newsroom, news beats are an important feature of journalistic research. However, within the extensive research that examines beat reporting and its specialties, there is little that examines how the media covers itself—or the media beat. This study explores the media beat in Australia, examining how media covered two major media change events: the loss of jobs at new…
Mobilising networks after redundancy
Redundancy and job loss in a context of precarity have become central to the experiences of journalists globally over the last decade. Previous research has identified the importance of networks to job seeking in these contexts. This article analyses responses of 225 journalists in Australia whose positions were made redundant between 2012 and 2014 to questions about their ongoing connections with former colleagues in a survey conducted four time…
Tragedy or over-achievement
Spinal cord injury has evolved from a condition not to be treated, to one that is treated and rehabilitated. People with spinal cord injury now live longer active lives; however, barriers to participation such as attitudes and misunderstandings of spinal cord injury still exist. Acknowledging that media can shape attitudes and understanding of disability, primary aim of this study was to explore how spinal cord injury has been framed in Australia…
Football, Media, and Homophobia
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, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) community at and through a major sporting event. This study examines the framing of this game in the print and online media and in public responses via comments on media coverage and comments on Facebook posts. The framing of bo…
Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War
Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War
A new league, new coverage? Comparing tweets and media coverage from the first season of AFLW
Recent research has indicated that coverage of women’s sport has become less trivialised and sexualised, compared to historical coverage. This article uses the inaugural season of the AFL Women’s (AFLW) League in 2017 to explore this concept in both media and Twitter framing. It found that most media coverage and tweets were likely to discuss the AFLW as sport, focusing on match previews and reviews. However, there was evidence that women may sti…
Who controls sport news? Media relations and information subsidies in Australian sport media
Anecdotal evidence suggests that sport organisations in Australia have taken significant control of the news agenda through the employment of media-relations managers, who deliver regular, routinised information subsidies - such as media releases and media conferences. This article explored the impact of these subsidies on the news through a survey (n = 123) and interviews (n = 37) with media-relations staff employed in Australian sport organisat…
Access, agenda building and information subsidies
While much research has examined the composition of sport media and those charged with constructing it, namely sport journalists and editors, far less has explored an essential set of actors in the construction of news: sources. This study aimed to explore the construction of the sport media agenda from arguably the most important sport news sources: sport media relations managers. In particular, this paper asked: how do media staff in sports org…
Labour and the Decolonization Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago
Newswork, News Values, and Audience Considerations
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 cove…
Once a Journalist, Always a Journalist
The traditional model of journalism in western societies, dominated by legacy media outlets such as newspapers and television, has undergone fundamental change in the twenty-first century. One consequence has been significant job losses within these newsrooms. As journalists negotiate new employment post-job loss in Australia, this paper asks, how has this impacted on their professional identity? Drawing on varying conceptualisations of professio…
Where do journalists go after newsroom job cuts
This article explores the aftermath of job loss in journalism in 2012, a year of dramatic press industry restructuring in Australia. It reports the findings of a pilot survey of 95 Australian redundant journalists, undertaken as part of the New Beats project, a five-year, university–industry investigation of what happens to journalists, and journalism, after job loss. Three related questions drive the analysis: Where do journalists go after job c…
Origins of Pan-Africanism
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the African Association in 1897, and the first-ever Pan-African Conference in 1900. He is thus the progenitor of the OAU/AU. Some of those who attended wen…
Web 2.0 platforms and the work of newspaper sport journalists
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 in-depth interviews were conducted with 27 newspaper sport journalists, three from each of the nine Australian daily newspapers with the highest circulation. The research found that the most common Web 2.0 platforms used by Australian newspaper sport j…
After Abolition
With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she …
Britain, the slave trade and slavery, 1808-1843
Britain congratulated itself on having made trading in slaves illegal with the 1807 Act. While later legislation ostensibly strengthened the original Act's provisions, there were persistent allegations, supported by evidence from the British Foreign and Anti-Slavery society among others, that British companies still profited from it. One of the few prosecutions against the owner of one such company, Pedro Zulueta, ended in his acquittal despite e…
Pan-African History
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dus Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism
Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century
Diane Frost, Work and Community among West Africian Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999, £32.00, 278 pp., ISBN 0 85323 523 6 (hard covers), £15.95, ISBN 0 85323 533 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4
Race, Empire and Education
Si le racisme anti-Noirs trouve une origine dans le commerce europeen des esclaves au debut des temps modernes, en Angleterre, la propagation institutionnalisee du mythe de la superiorite blanche s'est developpee plus particulierement au XIX e siecle, pour justifier et appuyer les conquetes et les peuplements coloniaux, ainsi que pour assurer la cohesion sociale de la metropole. L'A. examine la construction de cette ideologie raciste de l'Empire …
Engendering Racism
acist stereotypes of black peoples are ubiquitous in Britain and are not class-bound. (Nor are they, of course, restricted to blacks; negative stereotypes of, for example, Irish and Roma [gypsies] are also abundant.) Such stereotyping is common in books for children and adults, in all genres of writing. Well-known examples of such writers are Sax Rohmer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, who bridged the worl…
The Black Handbook
The Black Handbook: The people, history and politics and the African Diaspora Get access The Black Handbook: The people, history and politics and the African Diaspora, by E. L. Bute and H. J. P. HarmerLondon: Cassell, 1997. vii+392 pp. £15.99 paperback. ISBN 0-304-33543-6. MARIKA SHERWOOD MARIKA SHERWOOD Institute of CommonwealthLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 390, …
Once a Journalist, Always a Journalist
The traditional model of journalism in western societies, dominated by legacy media outlets such as newspapers and television, has undergone fundamental change in the twenty-first century. One consequence has been significant job losses within these newsrooms. As journalists negotiate new employment post-job loss in Australia, this paper asks, how has this impacted on their professional identity? Drawing on varying conceptualisations of professio…
Pan-African History
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dus Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism
Web 2.0 platforms and the work of newspaper sport journalists
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 in-depth interviews were conducted with 27 newspaper sport journalists, three from each of the nine Australian daily newspapers with the highest circulation. The research found that the most common Web 2.0 platforms used by Australian newspaper sport j…
After Abolition
With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she …
Kwame Nkrumah
The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule. His greatest achievement was to win the right of black peoples in Africa to have a vote and to determine their own destiny. He turned a dream of liberation into a political reality. He wa…
Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century
Diane Frost, Work and Community among West Africian Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999, £32.00, 278 pp., ISBN 0 85323 523 6 (hard covers), £15.95, ISBN 0 85323 533 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4
Newswork, News Values, and Audience Considerations
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 cove…
Race, nationality and employment among Lascar seamen, 1660 to 1945
Lascars were Indian seamen employed on British registered ships from at least the seventeenth century. Though technically British subjects, special legislation deprived them of this status and restricted their ‘Britishness’ regarding employment to particular parts of the world and to a fixed proportion of the crew, except in time of war. Moreover, this legislation, much of it in force until quite recently, fixed wages and conditions at a much low…
Where do journalists go after newsroom job cuts
This article explores the aftermath of job loss in journalism in 2012, a year of dramatic press industry restructuring in Australia. It reports the findings of a pilot survey of 95 Australian redundant journalists, undertaken as part of the New Beats project, a five-year, university–industry investigation of what happens to journalists, and journalism, after job loss. Three related questions drive the analysis: Where do journalists go after job c…
Elder Dempster and West Africa 1891-C.1940
L'A. rappelle qu'en Afrique Occidentale les contacts avec les esclavagistes ont permis le developpement d'un commerce local. Il s'efforce d'identifier les causes de l'eclipse economique des marchands africains a la fin du 19 e siecle. Il considere que l'acces au credit, la dipersion des activites commerciales et l'influence des grandes societes europeennes sont a l'origine de cette marginalisation du commerce africain. Il souligne plus particulie…
Who controls sport news? Media relations and information subsidies in Australian sport media
Anecdotal evidence suggests that sport organisations in Australia have taken significant control of the news agenda through the employment of media-relations managers, who deliver regular, routinised information subsidies - such as media releases and media conferences. This article explored the impact of these subsidies on the news through a survey (n = 123) and interviews (n = 37) with media-relations staff employed in Australian sport organisat…
Race, Empire and Education
Si le racisme anti-Noirs trouve une origine dans le commerce europeen des esclaves au debut des temps modernes, en Angleterre, la propagation institutionnalisee du mythe de la superiorite blanche s'est developpee plus particulierement au XIX e siecle, pour justifier et appuyer les conquetes et les peuplements coloniaux, ainsi que pour assurer la cohesion sociale de la metropole. L'A. examine la construction de cette ideologie raciste de l'Empire …
Kwame Nkrumah
Strikes! African seamen, elder dempster and the government 1940–42
There were three strikes in Liverpool by African seamen working for Elder Dempster during the early years of the Second World War. Through the investigation of the 1940 strikers’ complaints it became evident that Elder Dempster had a four‐tier wage scale: at the bottom were Nigerians recruited in Nigeria; then Africans recruited in Freetown; third were Africans employed from Liverpool and at the top were European seamen, who were paid the Nationa…
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah is one of the most important figures in the history of modern African nationalism. Returning to the Gold Coast from London in 1947 he created the Convention People's Party and mobilized disenfranchised people to successfully challenge British colonial rule. In ten years Nkrumah's CPP won three elections and led to independence the new state of Ghana. Nkrumah spent two‐and‐a‐half years in London which were of great significance to th…
A new league, new coverage? Comparing tweets and media coverage from the first season of AFLW
Recent research has indicated that coverage of women’s sport has become less trivialised and sexualised, compared to historical coverage. This article uses the inaugural season of the AFL Women’s (AFLW) League in 2017 to explore this concept in both media and Twitter framing. It found that most media coverage and tweets were likely to discuss the AFLW as sport, focusing on match previews and reviews. However, there was evidence that women may sti…
There Is No New Deal for the Blackman in San Francisco
Marika Sherwood, "There Is No New Deal for the Blackman in San Francisco": African Attempts to Influence the Founding Conference of the United Nations, April-July, 1945, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1996), pp. 71-94
Football, Media, and Homophobia
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, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) community at and through a major sporting event. This study examines the framing of this game in the print and online media and in public responses via comments on media coverage and comments on Facebook posts. The framing of bo…
Diplomatic platitudes’
The people of the colonies and colonials in the UK quickly realized that the opportunities provided by the Second World War should be used to advance their interests: independence for the colonies and equality at home and in the Mother Country. They used the terms of the Atlantic Charter, which promised to restore sovereignty and self‐government to those who had been ‘forcibly deprived of them’, to pressure the British government. In 1945 they us…
Mobilising networks after redundancy
Redundancy and job loss in a context of precarity have become central to the experiences of journalists globally over the last decade. Previous research has identified the importance of networks to job seeking in these contexts. This article analyses responses of 225 journalists in Australia whose positions were made redundant between 2012 and 2014 to questions about their ongoing connections with former colleagues in a survey conducted four time…
Engendering Racism
acist stereotypes of black peoples are ubiquitous in Britain and are not class-bound. (Nor are they, of course, restricted to blacks; negative stereotypes of, for example, Irish and Roma [gypsies] are also abundant.) Such stereotyping is common in books for children and adults, in all genres of writing. Well-known examples of such writers are Sax Rohmer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, who bridged the worl…
The 1945 Pan-African Congress Revisited
India at the Founding of the United Nations
Tragedy or over-achievement
Spinal cord injury has evolved from a condition not to be treated, to one that is treated and rehabilitated. People with spinal cord injury now live longer active lives; however, barriers to participation such as attitudes and misunderstandings of spinal cord injury still exist. Acknowledging that media can shape attitudes and understanding of disability, primary aim of this study was to explore how spinal cord injury has been framed in Australia…
Access, agenda building and information subsidies
While much research has examined the composition of sport media and those charged with constructing it, namely sport journalists and editors, far less has explored an essential set of actors in the construction of news: sources. This study aimed to explore the construction of the sport media agenda from arguably the most important sport news sources: sport media relations managers. In particular, this paper asked: how do media staff in sports org…
It is not a case of numbers’
Despite some recent pioneering work, studies of black immigration into Britain have concentrated on the post‐Second World War period. This article deals with a significant ‘rehearsal’ of official attitudes towards black immigrants: British Hondurans who came to Britain as wartime forestry workers. Using government department files and oral evidence, the nature and extent of prejudice and discrimination is clearly illustrated. Their eventual repat…
Quakers, colonies and colonials, 1938–48
Scholars have barely scratched the surface of the history of ‘Black’ peoples in the United Kingdom before the brief episode of immigration which began in 1948. For example, very little is known about the response of ‘white’ organizations, whether religious, philanthropic or political, to colonial issues or to ‘colonials’ in Britain. This article looks at the attitudes, as revealed by central committee minutes, of the Society of Friends, a religio…
Race, nationality and employment among Lascar seamen, 1660 to 1945
Lascars were Indian seamen employed on British registered ships from at least the seventeenth century. Though technically British subjects, special legislation deprived them of this status and restricted their ‘Britishness’ regarding employment to particular parts of the world and to a fixed proportion of the crew, except in time of war. Moreover, this legislation, much of it in force until quite recently, fixed wages and conditions at a much low…
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah is one of the most important figures in the history of modern African nationalism. Returning to the Gold Coast from London in 1947 he created the Convention People's Party and mobilized disenfranchised people to successfully challenge British colonial rule. In ten years Nkrumah's CPP won three elections and led to independence the new state of Ghana. Nkrumah spent two‐and‐a‐half years in London which were of great significance to th…
Strikes! African seamen, elder dempster and the government 1940–42
There were three strikes in Liverpool by African seamen working for Elder Dempster during the early years of the Second World War. Through the investigation of the 1940 strikers’ complaints it became evident that Elder Dempster had a four‐tier wage scale: at the bottom were Nigerians recruited in Nigeria; then Africans recruited in Freetown; third were Africans employed from Liverpool and at the top were European seamen, who were paid the Nationa…
Peter Blackman, 1909-1993
Journal Article Peter Blackman, 1909–1993 Get access MARIKA SHERWOOD MARIKA SHERWOOD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, SPRING 1994, Pages 266–267, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/37.1.266 Published: 01 March 1994
The Comintern, the CPGB, Colonies and Black Britons, 1920-1938
The Comintern espoused the liberation of colonies from its earliest days and charged the parties in the "Mother Countries" to support independence movements and to recruit "colonials" at home and in the metropoles to their ranks. From 1928 Communists were also instructed to eradicate racist attitudes and practices within the parties. The Communist Party of Great Britain generally ignored these directives: no work was done in the colonies and the …
India at the Founding of the United Nations
There Is No New Deal for the Blackman in San Francisco
Marika Sherwood, "There Is No New Deal for the Blackman in San Francisco": African Attempts to Influence the Founding Conference of the United Nations, April-July, 1945, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1996), pp. 71-94
Diplomatic platitudes’
The people of the colonies and colonials in the UK quickly realized that the opportunities provided by the Second World War should be used to advance their interests: independence for the colonies and equality at home and in the Mother Country. They used the terms of the Atlantic Charter, which promised to restore sovereignty and self‐government to those who had been ‘forcibly deprived of them’, to pressure the British government. In 1945 they us…
Elder Dempster and West Africa 1891-C.1940
L'A. rappelle qu'en Afrique Occidentale les contacts avec les esclavagistes ont permis le developpement d'un commerce local. Il s'efforce d'identifier les causes de l'eclipse economique des marchands africains a la fin du 19 e siecle. Il considere que l'acces au credit, la dipersion des activites commerciales et l'influence des grandes societes europeennes sont a l'origine de cette marginalisation du commerce africain. Il souligne plus particulie…
Kwame Nkrumah
The 1945 Pan-African Congress Revisited
Engendering Racism
acist stereotypes of black peoples are ubiquitous in Britain and are not class-bound. (Nor are they, of course, restricted to blacks; negative stereotypes of, for example, Irish and Roma [gypsies] are also abundant.) Such stereotyping is common in books for children and adults, in all genres of writing. Well-known examples of such writers are Sax Rohmer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, who bridged the worl…
The Black Handbook
The Black Handbook: The people, history and politics and the African Diaspora Get access The Black Handbook: The people, history and politics and the African Diaspora, by E. L. Bute and H. J. P. HarmerLondon: Cassell, 1997. vii+392 pp. £15.99 paperback. ISBN 0-304-33543-6. MARIKA SHERWOOD MARIKA SHERWOOD Institute of CommonwealthLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 390, …
Kwame Nkrumah
The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule. His greatest achievement was to win the right of black peoples in Africa to have a vote and to determine their own destiny. He turned a dream of liberation into a political reality. He wa…
Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century
Diane Frost, Work and Community among West Africian Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999, £32.00, 278 pp., ISBN 0 85323 523 6 (hard covers), £15.95, ISBN 0 85323 533 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4
Race, Empire and Education
Si le racisme anti-Noirs trouve une origine dans le commerce europeen des esclaves au debut des temps modernes, en Angleterre, la propagation institutionnalisee du mythe de la superiorite blanche s'est developpee plus particulierement au XIX e siecle, pour justifier et appuyer les conquetes et les peuplements coloniaux, ainsi que pour assurer la cohesion sociale de la metropole. L'A. examine la construction de cette ideologie raciste de l'Empire …
Pan-African History
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dus Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism
Britain, the slave trade and slavery, 1808-1843
Britain congratulated itself on having made trading in slaves illegal with the 1807 Act. While later legislation ostensibly strengthened the original Act's provisions, there were persistent allegations, supported by evidence from the British Foreign and Anti-Slavery society among others, that British companies still profited from it. One of the few prosecutions against the owner of one such company, Pedro Zulueta, ended in his acquittal despite e…
After Abolition
With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she …
Origins of Pan-Africanism
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the African Association in 1897, and the first-ever Pan-African Conference in 1900. He is thus the progenitor of the OAU/AU. Some of those who attended wen…
Web 2.0 platforms and the work of newspaper sport journalists
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 in-depth interviews were conducted with 27 newspaper sport journalists, three from each of the nine Australian daily newspapers with the highest circulation. The research found that the most common Web 2.0 platforms used by Australian newspaper sport j…
Where do journalists go after newsroom job cuts
This article explores the aftermath of job loss in journalism in 2012, a year of dramatic press industry restructuring in Australia. It reports the findings of a pilot survey of 95 Australian redundant journalists, undertaken as part of the New Beats project, a five-year, university–industry investigation of what happens to journalists, and journalism, after job loss. Three related questions drive the analysis: Where do journalists go after job c…
Newswork, News Values, and Audience Considerations
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 cove…
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