My sport media consumption revolves entirely around the quickest way of getting information. I will not watch SportsCenter or any show similar to it on my own. If it is on at work, or elsewhere, I will not turn it off, but I will never go out of my way to put it on. Because of that, I get all my sports related news from Twitter or Instagram. I want to be able to quickly scroll, get the basic gist of the news and then continue on. I also use ESPN notifications to get news as well. But my interactions with ESPN notifications is similar to SportsCenter. I am rarely going to click on an ESPN notification to read the full article, but if it is intriguing enough I will go to the article and read the whole article.
Five years ago, I was not really consuming any sport media. I was barely keeping up with any baseball news, my main sport to follow. Part of this is because I was in a spot where being a woman in sports or a female who cared about sports was a negative and anyone who learned that I liked sports would just make comments about how I only cared about sports because of how attractive a player was or something like that. I think that is a big reason why I made any effort to learn about sports, so I could prove to anyone that I actually knew what I was talking about and that it was not just about looks to me.
I think in the next five years that sport news will come from the source itself rather than media outlets and news reporters. Similar to JJ Watt tweeting out that he had his heart restarted, so no one could out it before he did, I think that is going to become the norm from athletes.
Something that I would change about the sport communication landscape is not letting reporters break news stories, like the JJ Watt story. There are certain stories that I think need more boundaries on, and I wish that some news outlets and reporters would have more of a conscience about it.