Sports and journalism ethics: the coverage of 2012 London Olympics in the British, North-American and Spanish press

Ramon Vegas, Xavier

Sports and journalism ethics: the coverage of 2012 London Olympics in the British, North-American and Spanish press

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Ramon Vegas, X. Sports and journalism ethics: the coverage of 2012 London Olympics in the British, North-American and Spanish press. 2012. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/20700

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Sports and journalism ethics: the coverage of 2012 London Olympics in the British, North-American and Spanish press is a research focused on analysing the treatment that the quality press of three countries (United Kingdom, United States of America and Spain) will carry out in the London Olympic Games. Through a solid methodological approach based on the combination of the qualitative content analysis and qualitative indepth interviews, the investigation will study if the media provide a quality coverage,/nthat is, if they adequate their pieces to the fundamental principles of journalistic deontology (truth, justice, freedom and social responsibility). Furthermore, the research will assess if the selected media comply with the prescriptions established in the ethical codes, stylebooks, newsroom statutes and national and international recommendations about journalism ethics, ranging from each media’s guidelines to key transnational codes established by the UNESCO, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) or/nthe Council of Europe.