Competitions at a standstill. Sports journalism disoriented?

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The pandemic has pushed traditional sports to go virtual. In December 2019 at the 8th Olympic Summit, members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) encouraged international sports federations “ to examine how to govern the electronic and virtual forms of their sports and to explore opportunities with game publishers. ”

The phenomenon of e-sport – the English term for video game competitions on a local network ( LAN party ) or via the Internet , on consoles or computers – has grown further. Many sports competitions have taken place online during the lockdown.

With the resumption of in-person sports competitions, the oman cell phone number list question of the link between sport and e-sport arises. What conclusions can we draw a few months after the end of lockdown?


In France, the editor-in-chief of L' Équipe Magazine, Géraldine Catalano, justified the newspaper's suspension due to the lack of sports news during the lockdown. For Karim Souanef – lecturer in sociology at the University of Lille – this is a fine example of journalists' submission to the sports calendar.

The author of Le Journalisme sportif. Sociologie d'une spécialité dominee ( Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019), has been trying to understand since 1998 what differentiates specialist sports journalists from others. He recently pointed out in an interview with Olivier Villepreux for Le Monde that the dependence of sports journalists on their sector is questionable. “I see piles of books in the editorial offices that journalists don't have time to read. There would be a lot of interesting articles to write but the reason is commercial. what sells is sports news and not long articles that people wouldn't read.”