Politicians to scrutinise how sports reporting is affected by commercial deals

Tim Burrowes

March 11, 2009 3:24

The reporting of sports news in the digital age is to be the focus of a parliamentary hearing.

The Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts will examine the issue over the next couple of months and is due to issue a report by mid May.

The areas it will be examining include:

The balance between protecting sporting organsiations’ commercial interests and fair access to events for reporting issues;
Whether sporting organisations could limit the frequency of updates to news reports;
The use of accreditation of journalists by sporting bodes to control reporting.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.