Universität zu Köln

Ihle, Holger ORCID: 0000-0003-3806-773X (2023). How gender affects the newsworthiness of sports news on German TV: An application of the news-factors approach to understanding gender-biased sports news presentation. Int. Rev. Sociol. Sport, 58 (2). S. 253 - 278. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1461-7218

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Abstract

Gender inequalities in sports media are well-documented. This study focuses on sports news composition and how gender influences the prominence of sports news stories. The news-factors approach offers a causal explanation for the lower prominence (i.e. newsworthiness) of women's sports in TV sports reporting. Following this theory's perspective, athletes' gender is supposed to work as a moderating variable on news values of news factors in sports reports. The content analysis of seven German sports news programs reveals whether the same news factors are treated unequally with regard to women's and men's sports in TV news coverage. The results show that women's sports are presented as less newsworthy than men's sports, although news factors do not differ significantly by gender. However, the moderation effect of gender does not cause lower newsworthiness. That means, e.g., sports women's successes are equally emphasized as the success of male athletes in sports news on TV, and gender does not lower the credits female athlete's success receive in any given news stories. Instead, the results suggest that gender works as a news factor of its own, reducing not the news value of certain news factors but the overall newsworthiness of women's sports in TV coverage. Thus, the results demonstrate that gender inequality in sports media does not necessarily come from journalists perceiving female athletes' performance as inferior but from presenting women's sports less often and in a far less prominent way than men's sports.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Ihle, Holger UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3806-773X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-661254
DOI:	10.1177/10126902221103106
Journal or Publication Title:	Int. Rev. Sociol. Sport
Volume:	58
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 253 - 278
Date:	2023
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1461-7218
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language TELEVISED NEWS; MEDIA COVERAGE; WOMENS; PLAY; MENS Multiple languages Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism; Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66125