Sports Journalism

Patrick S. Washburn is a professor emeritus of the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. He is the author or editor of several books, including A Question of Sedition: The Federal Government’s Investigation of the Black Press during World War II. Chris Lamb is a professor of journalism at Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is the author of several books, including Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball (Nebraska, 2012).  

Preface    
Introduction    
Chapter One: The Beginning of American Sportswriting    
Chapter Two: Sports Journalism Blossoms    
Chapter Three: Newspapers and Radio Begin to Coexist    
Chapter Four: Sportswriters and Black Athletes    
Chapter Five: Sports Illustrated and ABC Television    
Chapter Six: ESPN and Women Sportswriters and Broadcasters    
Chapter Seven: The State of Sports Journalism    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index