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

IF 2.5 3区教育学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

International Review for the Sociology of Sport Pub Date : 2022-06-06 DOI:10.1177/10126902221103106

Holger Ihle

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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.

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性别如何影响德国电视体育新闻的新闻价值——新闻因素法在理解性别偏见体育新闻报道中的应用

体育媒体中的性别不平等现象有据可查。本研究的重点是体育新闻创作以及性别如何影响体育新闻故事的突出性。新闻因素法为女性体育在电视体育报道中的重要性（即新闻价值）较低提供了因果解释。根据这一理论，运动员的性别被认为是体育报道中新闻因素新闻价值的调节变量。对七个德国体育新闻节目的内容分析揭示了在电视新闻报道中，同样的新闻因素在女性和男性体育方面是否受到不平等对待。结果表明，尽管新闻因素在性别上没有显著差异，但女性体育的新闻价值不如男性体育。然而，性别的调节效应并不会降低新闻价值。这意味着，例如，在电视体育新闻中，体育女性的成功与男运动员的成功同样受到重视，而性别并不会降低女运动员在任何特定新闻报道中的成功。相反，研究结果表明，性别本身就是一个新闻因素，降低的不是某些新闻因素的新闻价值，而是女性体育在电视报道中的整体新闻价值。因此，研究结果表明，体育媒体中的性别不平等并不一定来自于记者认为女性运动员的表现较差，而是来自于报道女性体育项目的频率和方式远不如男性体育项目突出。

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International Review for the Sociology of Sport Multiple-

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5.90

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期刊介绍： The International Review for the Sociology of Sport is a peer reviewed academic journal that is indexed on ISI. Eight issues are now published each year. The main purpose of the IRSS is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, from standard length research papers to shorter reports and commentary, as well as book and media reviews. The International Review for the Sociology of Sport is not restricted to any theoretical or methodological perspective and brings together contributions from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, gender studies, media studies, history, political economy, semiotics, sociology, as well as interdisciplinary research.