THE INFLUENCE OF BROADCASTING RIGHTS ON SPORTS JOURNALISM: A STUDY CONDUCTED WITH JOURNALISTS ON THE COVERAGE OF THE RIO/2016 PARALYMPIC GAME

Authors

  • Silvan Menezes dos Santos Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Cursos de Educação Física, Faculdade de Educação. Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul.
  • Josep Solves Almela Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Comunicación. Valencia, Espanha.
  • Doralice Lange de Souza Universidade Federal do Paraná. Departamento e Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física. Curitiba, Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.90427

Keywords:

Paralympic Sports. Media. Broadcasting rights. Sports Mega Event

Abstract

This study characterized influences of image and broadcasting rights on the process of producing news stories about Rio/2016 Paralympic Games. This research was qualitative, descriptive, exploratory and inspired by some characteristics of newsmaking studies. We interviewed 15 journalists and editors from distinct Brazilian media groups and newspapers who covered that mega sporting event. Definitions and delimitations of journalistic activity guided by commercial issues, such as time and space constraints for interviewing athletes and occasional difficulty to access local sports idols for news coverage directed to specific locations, indicate that the breadth and complexity of the information collected by journalists to produce news is restricted when no one holds broadcasting rights.

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Author Biographies

Silvan Menezes dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Cursos de Educação Física, Faculdade de Educação. Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul.

Professor Adjunto dos cursos de Educação Física da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Pesquisador do Laboratório e Observatório da Mídia Esportiva (LaboMídia/UFSC/UFS).

Josep Solves Almela, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Comunicación. Valencia, Espanha.

Professor da Faculdade de Humanidades e Ciências da Comunicação da Universidade CEU Cardenal Herrera.

Doralice Lange de Souza, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Departamento e Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física. Curitiba, Paraná

Professora Associada do Departamento e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física da Universidade Federal do Paraná.

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Published

2020-02-23

How to Cite

SANTOS, S. M. dos; ALMELA, J. S.; SOUZA, D. L. de. THE INFLUENCE OF BROADCASTING RIGHTS ON SPORTS JOURNALISM: A STUDY CONDUCTED WITH JOURNALISTS ON THE COVERAGE OF THE RIO/2016 PARALYMPIC GAME. Movimento, [S. l.], v. 26, p. e26010, 2020. DOI: 10.22456/1982-8918.90427. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/90427. Acesso em: 24 jun. 2025.

Issue

v. 26, jan./dez. 2020

Section

Original Articles

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