Newspaper Coverage of Sport in China, Slovenia and the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19595146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Ličen (0000-0002-7261-7013, Washington State University, corresponding author), Luleiya Huang, Lifei Huang (0000-0002-2107-5808, Beijing Sport University), Bin Xiao (0000-0002-6370-6946, Beijing Sport University), Xuemei Bi (Beijing Sport University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-123 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2769-0148 • E-ISSN: 2769-0156 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/27690148.2025.2459709 |
| OpenAlex | W4409185369 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This study offers a quantitative comparison of newspaper coverage of sport in three countries with distinct social and economic systems. The study is guided by the concepts of agenda setting, international news flow, and globalization/glocalization frameworks. In each country, three newspapers (a quality, popular, and regional daily) were monitored over two artificial weeks between April and July 2021 for variables including newspaper section, article size, genre, author identity, sport, content focus, and geographic details of news. For every article in a Chinese newspaper, three were printed in Slovenia and six in the United States. Game previews, reports, and performance-related coverage accounted for 81.3–94.3% of articles. Commentaries are common in American and Slovenian newspapers but absent from the Chinese sample. Men authored 82.7% of articles in American and 89.1% in Slovenian newspapers. Women’s sport accounted for 10.2–10.8% of articles. Soccer and basketball were the only sports consistently discussed in all three countries, and local or native sports also received coverage, proving the glocalization of sports reporting. Chinese newspapers were the most international in scope (52.3%), while American dailies were the least (9.1%), suggesting that the international news flow hypothesis applies to sport journalism
Advertising · Business · China · Media coverage · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Sociology · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports Analytics and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |