Richard Jones
rlwjones.bsky.social
Richard Jones
@rlwjones.bsky.social
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University lecturer and erstwhile stay-at-home dad.
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My book Reporting the Courts is out this week, published by Routledge. It’s full of new research into the past, present and future of how the media covers the courts in the UK. Let's dive in! 🧵
Hi Dean, you may have sent this to the wrong Richard Jones (there are two in different parts of the university). My address is on here: www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ri...
Thanks for sharing this, Bob.
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Very good piece by @rlwjones.bsky.social on why Reform’s stand-off with journalists in Nottingham matters. Via @uk.theconversation.com
@manchesterhistory.uk Hi Dean, Richard Jones here from Salford Uni. What's the best email address to get you on? I've got a research project I'm working on with a colleague that I'd like to run by you.
@keandrews.bsky.social I walked past a small sinkhole being repaired near my house!
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This article will resonate with nostalgic fans of the times in sports and media that once were.
"The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport," by ‪Richard Jones @rlwjones.bsky.social
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🏏 New County #Cricket Newsletter. Please share and enjoy

🟢 Metro Bank - good crowds, poor quality
🟣 Blast gets cut, Champ untouched
🟠 Foxes confirm four signings
🔴 Somerset's 150th birthday
🔵 Barker back at Warks
🟡 Middx eye new ground
No 166, Aug 23: The Grumbler's County Cricket Newsletter
🟢 Metro Bank - good crowds, poor quality 🟣 Blast gets cut, Champ untouched 🟠 Foxes confirm four signings 🔴 Somerset's 150th birthday 🔵 Barker back at Warks 🟡 Middx eye new ground
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This is good stuff imo.
🚨An academic article, so it's balanced, evidence-based but dry

The author contacted me via newsletter & I said I'd share on social

The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport
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Hi Tom! One aspect of this is that the cost of the Reporters' Network is virtually a rounding error when set against the ECB's full income from Sky (a luxury most sports don't have). There's much more detail in the whole research piece, free to read here. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Find yourself a nice chunk of time and if you like cricket this will be well spent.
A new paper from @rlwjones.bsky.social has just been published about coverage of county cricket, based on interviews with current journalists & content producers.

Richard first presented this at our conference in Feb so it's great to see it out in the world!

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NEW ARTICLE ALERT
“The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport”, by Richard Jones, available online and open access ahead of print in Communication & Sport
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📚 There'll be much more on this and a lot else besides in my forthcoming book Sports Journalism in the UK, with @routledgebooks.bsky.social next year.
🤔 Yet I argue we can’t rely on ECB-funded journalism to expose off-field issues like the Yorkshire racism scandal, and relative outsiders in podcasts and national media are better placed to provide critical, journalistic scrutiny.
🙈 To its credit, the ECB generally doesn’t interfere and even turns a blind eye to intense criticism of things like The Hundred on the broadcasts it funds.
📻 The ECB also returns some of the cash the BBC pays for international radio rights on Test Match Special, so it can be spent on county commentaries.
✍️ The media therefore relies on subsidies from governing body the ECB – its Reporters’ Network provides a journalist at every game with articles available to all media, a model other sports might look to copy.
📰 But press boxes have got emptier, and the @yorkshirepost.co.uk is the only regional newspaper left with a full-time cricket correspondent.
📺 Streaming is now central to the broader county cricket media ecosystem – the BBC, @theguardian.com and others often rely on the streams so they can do their popular liveblogs remotely.