Richard Jones

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Some quite depressing findings from Richard Jones about cricket’s place in the sports news agenda, showing its decline.

His analysis of regional press, national radio & X posts suggests cricket is disappearing from some commercial media, and is heavily reliant on the BBC for prominence. #CRN2026

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You know a media organisation is in the middle of a very serious crisis when even I'm asked for my opinion about it.
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Hi Dean, you may have sent this to the wrong Richard Jones (there are two in different parts of the university). My address is on here: www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ri...

Thanks for sharing this, Bob.

Very good piece by @rlwjones.bsky.social on why Reform’s stand-off with journalists in Nottingham matters. Via @uk.theconversation.com

@manchesterhistory.uk Hi Dean, Richard Jones here from Salford Uni. What's the best email address to get you on? I've got a research project I'm working on with a colleague that I'd like to run by you.

Reform v the Nottingham Post: why local media is crucial to democracy Hardly anyone actually goes to council meetings. It is journalists who can keep a close eye and tell us all what’s happening.

Hardly anyone actually goes to council meetings. It is journalists who can keep a close eye and tell us all what’s happening.

Reform v the Nottingham Post: why local media is crucial to democracy Hardly anyone actually goes to council meetings. It is journalists who can keep a close eye and tell us all what’s happening.

🚨 Why is Reform v the Nottingham Post a big deal?

Me for @theconversation.com

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@keandrews.bsky.social I walked past a small sinkhole being repaired near my house!

This article will resonate with nostalgic fans of the times in sports and media that once were.
"The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport," by ‪Richard Jones @rlwjones.bsky.social
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No 166, Aug 23: The Grumbler's County Cricket Newsletter 🟢 Metro Bank - good crowds, poor quality 🟣 Blast gets cut, Champ untouched 🟠 Foxes confirm four signings 🔴 Somerset's 150th birthday 🔵 Barker back at Warks 🟡 Middx eye new ground

🏏 New County #Cricket Newsletter. Please share and enjoy

🟢 Metro Bank - good crowds, poor quality
🟣 Blast gets cut, Champ untouched
🟠 Foxes confirm four signings
🔴 Somerset's 150th birthday
🔵 Barker back at Warks
🟡 Middx eye new ground

This is good stuff imo.
🚨An academic article, so it's balanced, evidence-based but dry

The author contacted me via newsletter & I said I'd share on social

The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport
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You can read the full research paper at @commsportj.bsky.social >> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🏏 Thanks to @holdthefrontpage.bsky.social for picking up on my research into cricket media!

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Hi Tom! One aspect of this is that the cost of the Reporters' Network is virtually a rounding error when set against the ECB's full income from Sky (a luxury most sports don't have). There's much more detail in the whole research piece, free to read here. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thank you!

Find yourself a nice chunk of time and if you like cricket this will be well spent.

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NEW ARTICLE ALERT
“The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport”, by Richard Jones, available online and open access ahead of print in Communication & Sport
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📚 There'll be much more on this and a lot else besides in my forthcoming book Sports Journalism in the UK, with @routledgebooks.bsky.social next year.

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🎓 My full research article is open access and free to read at @commsportj.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🤔 Yet I argue we can’t rely on ECB-funded journalism to expose off-field issues like the Yorkshire racism scandal, and relative outsiders in podcasts and national media are better placed to provide critical, journalistic scrutiny.

🙈 To its credit, the ECB generally doesn’t interfere and even turns a blind eye to intense criticism of things like The Hundred on the broadcasts it funds.

📻 The ECB also returns some of the cash the BBC pays for international radio rights on Test Match Special, so it can be spent on county commentaries.

✍️ The media therefore relies on subsidies from governing body the ECB – its Reporters’ Network provides a journalist at every game with articles available to all media, a model other sports might look to copy.

📰 But press boxes have got emptier, and the @yorkshirepost.co.uk is the only regional newspaper left with a full-time cricket correspondent.

📺 Streaming is now central to the broader county cricket media ecosystem – the BBC, @theguardian.com and others often rely on the streams so they can do their popular liveblogs remotely.

👀 Fans can enjoy impressively broad coverage of county cricket, with every match covered by video streaming, local radio, liveblogs and the written press.

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🏏 I interviewed 20 professionals working in county cricket media and my findings have been published in @commsportj.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧵 After the incredible England v India Test series, The Hundred starts today. But so too does county cricket's One Day Cup. Once a mainstay of UK sports media, I've investigated how the traditional county game is now battling for attention in our packed sports landscape.