It Feels Like It’s in Our Back Yard”

Centering “Place” in Local Women’s Sports Media Coverage

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13049166
AutoresDunja Antunovic (0000-0002-6045-9484, University of Minnesota System, autor de correspondencia), Monica Crawford (0000-0002-2346-5914, University of Minnesota System), Kimberly Soltis (0000-0002-4450-2606, University of Minnesota System), Timothy M Daly (0000-0002-7121-2241, University of Minnesota System), Ariel Yang (University of Minnesota System)
Año2025
Fecha de publicación2025-10-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunication & Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2167-4795 • E-ISSN: 2167-4809
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/21674795251392857
OpenAlexW4415610088
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas68

Recent years have seen rising interest in and growing visibility of women’s sports. Concurrent with this “boom” in women’s sports are changing dynamics in the broader media landscape that affect news production both within and beyond the sports department. This study utilizes a place-based approach to understand how the places of news production play a role in journalists’ perceptions of the rising visibility of women’s sports and the resources they encounter when producing women’s sports coverage. Drawing on interviews with 39 journalists working within one state in the Midwestern United States, our findings indicate that the contextual factors specific to the sports and media markets of a geographic region are key to journalists’ approaches to women’s sports coverage. Local success and hometown connections are valuable resources, while journalists navigate barriers to “being there” and structural realignments of newsrooms

Affect (linguistics · Key (lock · Media coverage · News media · Perception · State (computer science · Visibility · Media Studies and Communication · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society