Tension between sports organizations, bloggers growing
The NCAA recently ejected a reporter from a baseball tournament for live blogging during a game. A writer for The Louisville Courier-Journal, was approached last Sunday by an NCAA representative in the bottom of the fifth inning and told that blogging from an NCAA championship event is against NCAA policies. The NCAA official revoked
the writers press credentials and asked him to leave.
The newspaper says its reporter has a First Amendment right to blog during games, saying live Internet updates are part of the evolving nature of journalism.
In an age of laptop wi-fi, camera phones an Internet video, the tension between sports leagues and bloggers will grow, said Rich Gordon, associate professor of journalism at Northwestern University.
