🧵 The BBC is ending Football Focus after more than half a century on the air.

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

You know a media organisation is in the middle of a very serious crisis when even I'm asked for my opinion about it. www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/donald-...

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.

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 theconversation.com/reform-v-the...

@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 Read it OPEN ACCESS at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

🏏 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 journals.sagepub.com...

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

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

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🧵 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.

A new paper from @rlwjones.bsky.social has just been published about coverage of county cricket, based on interviews with current journalists & content producers. Richard first presented this at our conference in Feb so it's great to see it out in the world! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Worth a read on how the media covers domestic cricket. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I still wonder how long Sky will tolerate the livestreams given their now generally high quality and the subsequent impact on Sky's theoretical exclusivity?

✍️ I've signed a contract to write my next book.

📻 I'm on the latest episode of @medialawpodcast.bsky.social discussing my book Reporting the Courts and all things open justice. Thank you for to the team for inviting me on! open.spotify.com/episode/3XJI...

In our latest episode, Colette and Paul are joined by Dr Richard Jones (Salford) and Dr Judith Townend (Sussex) for a deep dive into Jones’ recent book, Reporting the Courts. on.soundcloud.com/G7Cox5kdhWkp...

📺 BBC Grandstand was one of the most influential sport TV programmes ever. I've traced its rise and fall and conducted the first academic analysis of which sports it covered during half a century on air. Let's dive in!

📚 I've reviewed a great new book about crime in the media in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, written by Lee Michael-Berger. 🔓My review is open access and free to read in the Cultural and Social History journal. @salforduni.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

I’ve had a fun day at the Cricket Research Network conference, here at the ECB National Performance Centre in Loughborough. I was presenting an ongoing research project on cricket journalism, coming soon(ish). 🏏 #CRN2025

Great paper first up at #CRN2025 @cricketacademic.bsky.social from Richard Jones (University of Salford) about changing coverage of county cricket in the digital age. Lots of challenges, including precarity and a reliance on ECB subsidy.

🚨 The deadline is this Friday if you want to present your research at the Journalism and the Courts symposium at @salforduni.bsky.social in June. All details are below! ⚖️

New from HTFP: Death of court reporting greatly exaggerated, survey finds: Big publishers maintaining commitment to cover local courts despite financial pressures

CFP 'Journalism and the Courts'

🚨 I've got a new research publication out today on court reporting in the UK's local press. Here are some of the key findings!

🚨 The Call for Papers is live for Journalism and the Courts, a one-day conference at @salforduni.bsky.social in June. ⚖️ I'm welcoming presentations on all aspects of court journalism and media law: bit.ly/3DPtu09 📖 It also marks the launch of my book, Reporting the Courts, out now!

Fine work from @rlwjones.bsky.social in his new book 'Reporting the Courts' www.routledge.com/Reporting-th...? More video & images from inside the courtroom? Allow reporters to record some of the proceedings? Better access to information? Thought-provoking suggestions, well worth a look

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My book Reporting the Courts is out this week, published by Routledge. It’s full of new research into the past, present and future of how the media covers the courts in the UK. Let's dive in! 🧵