ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses gatekeeping and how this concept has been applied to questions about (non)coverage of women's sport. It provides an overview of gatekeeping and also discusses how it has been integrated into research involving sports journalists and newsrooms. The chapter reviews the impact gatekeeping practices have had on how sports news is covered. It suggests ways research might further address sexism in coverage. Sport journalists receive a great deal more information than they ever disseminate to the public, even in the age of social media. D. M. White is widely credited as being the first scholar to apply gatekeeping to mass communications, or more specifically to journalism. Modern sport has been viewed as a place for men to dominate. The mentality is based upon sport being a place for men to demonstrate their masculinity and supposed physical superiority.
