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International Journal of Sport Communication, Volume 18, 2025, No. 4

The mission of IJSC is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to disseminate research and information from diverse fields such as critical studies, sport management, advertising, etc. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: by Zachary W. Arth, Mackenzie P. Pike, James R. Angelini.

The multiple and coexisting lives of sports journalism

To offer a comprehensive overview of the current and perceived future state of sports journalism competition, Nicholas Buzzelli’s latest offer, Normalizing the Sports Journalism Niche: Coexisting in a Modern News Landscape (Peter Lang) examines how various disseminators of written sports information are able to coexist in the modern sports journalism ecosystem by catering to the niche. Rosarita Cuccoli finds that the book provides valuable insights into the evolving nature of sports journalism as viewed by people from different subsets of sportswriting.

New book looks for sport sociology in sport journalism

The sport-media relationship is a long-standing and symbiotic one. Sport delivers key audiences while media coverage fosters sport’s popularity and development. Rosarita Cuccoli’s new book Sports Journalism in Society (Bologna University Press) is about the media’s role and responsibility in selecting what becomes news when covering sport. Nicholas R. Buzzelli, well versed in sport media studies, concludes that Cuccoli offers journalists and journalism scholars a framework for deciding how sports journalism and sport sociology should further intersect moving forward.

International Journal of Sport Communication, Volume 18, 2025, No. 2

The mission of IJSC is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to disseminate research and information from diverse fields such as critical studies, sport management, advertising, etc. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Still the Outsiders? Women in Sport Journalism by Alex Harris and Ali Bowes.

International Journal of Sport Communication, Volume 17, 2024, No. 3

The mission of IJSC is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to disseminate research and information from diverse fields such as critical studies, sport management, advertising, etc. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: A Case Study of Marcus Rashford: The People’s Champion, a “National Treasure,” and an Inspirational Personal Brand by John Vincent, John Harris, John S. Hill, Melvin Lewis.

Do we need another collection of sociology of sport articles? Our reviewer thinks so.

The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society, edited by Lawrence A, Wenner (Oxford UP), features leading international scholars’ assessments of scholarly inquiry about sport and society. Divided into six sections, chapters consider dominant issues within key areas, approaches featured in inquiry, and debates needing resolution. Our reviewer is Richards Giulianotti, who edited the Sage four volume set The Sociology of Sport in 2012, and he finds that this new collection, some unnecessary omissions notwithstanding, is a welcome addition to the existing list of handbooks in the field.

Communication & Sport, Vol. 10, 2022, No. 3

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Duty of Karius: Media Framing of Concussion Following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final by Adam J. White, Keith D. Parry, Connor Humphries, Simon Phelan, John Batten, and Rory Magrath.

International Journal of Sport Communication, Volume 14, 2021, No. 4

The mission of IJSC is to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to disseminate research and information from diverse fields such as critical studies, sport management, advertising, etc. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Two Events, Two Brazils: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games by Diego Monteiro Gutierrez, Marco Antonio Bettine de Almeida, Gustavo Luis Gutierrez, Zack P. Pedersen, Antonio S. Williams.

The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 38, 2021, Issue 1 | Fantasy Sport

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Communication as Commodity Exchange: Mapping the Media Ecology of Fantasy Sport by Travis R. Bell.

Communication & Sport, Vol. 9, 2021, No. 1

C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. – The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: #VEGASSTRONG: SPORT, PUBLIC MEMORIALIZATION, AND THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS by Benjamin Burroughs, Adam Rugg, David Becker, and Madeline Edgmon.