Tag: Rosarita Cuccoli

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.

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.

Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy Journal is dedicated to publishing articles that contribute to theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge in the complex field of law, public policy, and diplomacy in the sports system, as well as in other areas of social science focused on sports. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Social Analysis in the Media Coverage of Sport by Rosarita Cuccoli (open access).