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ERIC Number: EJ1436464
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1077-6958
EISSN: EISSN-2161-4326
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Training Sports Communicators to Report Concussions Accurately and Responsibly: Evidence from the Concussion Legacy Foundation Media Project Workshops
Scott Parrott; Andrew C. Billings; Brandon Boyd; Tom Arenberg; Samantha Bureau
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, v79 n3 p274-286 2024
Concussions are an important issue facing the short- and long-term health of athletes. News media play an important role in shaping public perceptions of concussions. However, such coverage often provides inaccurate information, disinformation, and/or trivializes concussions. To address the problem, the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF) provides workshops to teach journalists to responsibly report about concussions during live and post-competition coverage. Spearheaded by journalism instructors, the present study tested the effectiveness of the workshops through an experiment with 90 college journalism students. Students who completed the training showed improvement in scores on a "concussion in sport" literacy exam. They also performed better on the examination than students in a control condition. Results suggest the training is effective and could be standardized for those studying to work in the field of sports journalism.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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