1 TÜRKİYE PROFESYONEL LİGLERİNDE GÖREV ... - Spor Bilim

Sport section of Turkish newspapers pay special attention to sport games and news about
football as if sport only means football. The goal of this article is therefore to point out how
much attention the other sports is given or not given in terms of quality and quantity news in
newspapers. In order to claim this, we have observed how Turkish Women Volleyball
National Team’s 11 games during the World Cup in Japan were conveyed in the published
media. This study was based on four different large newspapers (Hurriyet, Milliyet, Sabah
and Vatan) and two sports newspapers (Fanatik and Fotomac). Another goal of this study is to
show if there was a difference in information flow between regular and sport newspapers. In
addition, we have studied Italian sport media, a country whose team also participated to in the
world cup like Turkey, to compare Turkish and Italian sport journalism. For this study we
have used Gazette della Sport which owns titles like “the oldest” and “the most popular” and
celebrated its 100th birthday in 1996