title: Amount of newspaper coverage of high school athletics for boys and girls on sports page and newspaper circulation.
abstract: This study analyzed the amount of coverage for high school athletics in 43 newspapers with small circulation by devoting 40% of their interscholastic athletics coverage to girls in athletics, printed significantly more articles about girls' athletics than did the newspapers with medium (33%) or large (32%) circulation. Therefore, the smaller the newspaper circulation, the more equitable the coverage of athletics for girls and boys. This finding was consistent with some prior work but not all.
authors.affiliation: Sport Management, Recreation, and Tourism Division, School of Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies, Bowling Green State University, OH 43403, USA.
authors.forename: Paul M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: Warren A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Whisenant
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D013177:Sports; D013334:Students