Social media is negatively impacting newspapers and changing sports coverage by allowing individuals to directly report on sports themselves through blogs and tweets from their homes, cutting out journalists as the middleman. New forms of media like teams' and athletes' official websites and PR are also stealing news from reporters by breaking stories themselves. As a result, newspapers are struggling and losing readership as social media replaces traditional sports sections and coverage.

1. How social media is killing
the sports section
A look inside how new forms of media are putting the newspaper
out of business, and changing the sports industry
- By Michael Caples

2. Blogs = coverage from your basement
Reporters are changing from A to B
B
A

3. Tweets steal the show
 Who needs a
reporter when
I can do it
myself?

4. PR/official sites – stealing the news
 Tiger = enough said.

5. The results? No more paperboys.
 The middle man (the
journalist) has been
forced out.