The Local Team by Andrew Prest

March 31, 2015

Written by Andrew Prest, this project explores how sports journalists at the local, provincial, and national level covered the career of Graham James, a junior hockey coach who was convicted of sexually assaulting two of his players.

Through an analysis of the content of four newspapers and interviews with journalists involved in sports reporting, Prest argues that the reporters closest to James failed to adequately investigate and report on this story. This project also identifies some problems with the way sports reporting is done in Canada and offers some suggestions of ways to solve those problems.

Posted with the permission of Andrew Prest.