The history of sports journalism

Around the 20th century, sports did continue to be mediated through radio and television broadcasts of games and events with newspaper sports journalists responding to technological evolutions by changing their work routines. By refocusing their attention, game broadcasters prompted newspaper journalists to alter how they covered games. In the 1920s and 1930s, sports journalists started using their stories for more analysis, more color, and interviewing players and coaches to gain their perspectives on the game, as opposed to producing game tales that almost exclusively relied on play-by-play accounts. It persisted as television coverage expanded in the 1950s and 1960s. This had a negative impact on how journalists covered events since they were forced to alter their usual practices. Stories began to rely more on stats, analysis, and background information and were less likely to be game recaps.