@inbook{9a515f77f60744c89302130b7695a9c2,
title = "Citizen Witnessing and Sports Journalism: Crisis, Cruelty and Whistleblowing",
abstract = "Citizen witnessing is particularly relevant to sports in crisis. It provides a refreshing contrast to a professional sports journalism culture that has become routinised and homogenised via accreditation. Citizen witnesses expand sports coverage in ways professional journalists cannot. The 2024 Copa America showed how mass spectator events can produce an army of citizen witnesses who offer different angles on breaking news events such as football violence. Elsewhere, those with special access to behind the scenes in sports can use mobile technology to whistle blow, with animal welfare in equestrianism during the build-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics a prime example.",
keywords = "sports journalism, citizen journalism, social media, citizen witnessing",
author = "Simon McEnnis",
year = "2026",
month = mar,
doi = "10.3726/b23388",
language = "English",
isbn = " 9783034363174",
series = "Global Crises and the Media",
publisher = "Peter Lang",
editor = "Stuart Allan and Thorsen, \{Einar \}",
booktitle = "Citizen Journalism",
edition = "3",
}