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Title: SPORTS JOURNALISM INTO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: NEW FORMS OF REPORTING
Authors: Sotiris Triantafyllou and Panagiota Antonopoulou
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Sotiris Triantafyllou1 and Panagiota Antonopoulou2 1. Teaching Staff, University of Patras 2. Associate Professor, University of Peloponnese
MLA 8 Triantafyllou, Sotiris, and Panagiota Antonopoulou. "SPORTS JOURNALISM INTO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: NEW FORMS OF REPORTING." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 7, no. 3, Mar. 2022, pp. 668-683, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i03.011. Accessed Mar. 2022. APA 6 Triantafyllou, S., & Antonopoulou, P. (2022, March). SPORTS JOURNALISM INTO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: NEW FORMS OF REPORTING. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 7(3), 668-683. Retrieved from doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i03.011 Chicago Triantafyllou, Sotiris, and Panagiota Antonopoulou. "SPORTS JOURNALISM INTO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: NEW FORMS OF REPORTING." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 7, no. 3 (March 2022), 668-683. Accessed March, 2022. doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i03.011.
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ABSTRACT: The focus point of this research is the digital transformation of sports journalism into the modern digital environment. Both in its traditional and digital form, the sport media industry is a cornerstone of knowledge and information about sports for all social classes, regardless income, race or gender. Sport media constitutes a major part of media industry, socialization, information and civilization. Nowadays, technology on the one hand offers to the journalists a lot of modern tools in order to upgrade their working context and on the other hand a lot of chances to save time and money to the media industry by automating an important part of their work. The use of the internet has changed everything in the field of sport communication in an impressive way; the terms of journalism have changed, a new communication landscape has been shaped and new key features are used. The digitization of information, the convergence of newsrooms, the mobile platforms, the social media and the public participation have totally changed the terms in the content of production and distribution. The Internet and mobile devices have changed the ecosystem of television, which has now moved away from its traditional form and is available everywhere and from every device (television, computer, mobile phone, tablet), the way TV content is distributed and the sale of television rights of sports events. Traditional sports must also be constantly adapted to the evolving technological changes, by the extensive use of the new media and social media and by creating new data in the coverage of sports events and television broadcasts (web streaming, social streaming). There are also new forms of journalism based on new technologies. The participatory journalism (citizen journalism) is now widely used by sports media and leads to new business models. The production of automated journalistic content, or content production by algorithms (robot journalism), is also used by sports media around the world to fully cover sports events and Mega Events. Other modern forms of journalism are Data journalism that contains the technology of virtual and augmented reality and Drone journalism that uses drones for journalism work. This article is an overview of the new forms of journalism that the sport media industry uses in order to be maintained in a sustainable and fruitful business environment.

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