ABSTRACT Journalists with social media accounts can face conflict between the personal nature of their posts while operating as representatives of their news organisations. The addition of another publishing platform has also continued to change the role of the journalist as gatekeeper, with more decisions to be made over dissemination choices in traditional, online and social media. This comparative study of sports journalists in India and Australia examines gatekeeping influences at individual and organisational levels. It combines in-depth interviews with 22 sports journalists with a content analysis of 2085 Twitter posts from sports journalists covering the Australia–India Test cricket series of 2014–2015. The results highlight how multi-media gatekeeping has become a factor for contemporary sports journalists in both nations.

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体育新闻中的社交媒体边界：印度和澳大利亚的个人和组织把关

摘要 拥有社交媒体账户的记者在作为新闻机构的代表运作时可能会面临其帖子的个人性质之间的冲突。另一个出版平台的加入也继续改变记者作为守门人的角色，在传统、在线和社交媒体的传播选择上需要做出更多决定。这项对印度和澳大利亚体育记者的比较研究考察了个人和组织层面的把关影响。它结合了对 22 名体育记者的深入采访，以及对 2014-2015 年澳大利亚-印度板球系列赛体育记者的 2085 篇 Twitter 帖子的内容分析。结果突显了多媒体把关如何成为两国当代体育记者的一个因素。