The fourth Play the Game communication conference on sport and society got underway, November 6, with a speech by Director Jens Sejr Andersen, who welcomed all those attending the 'biggest-ever international event focusing on corruption in sport'.

During the 2005 Play the Game conference, students from The Danish School of Journalism will maintain a conference website with minute by minute coverage of events. Go to the Conference Pulse website (no longer available)

Sports editors of daily newspapers all over the world allow the sports industry to set the agenda and the priorities for coverage of sports events.

Knowledge bank: Sports editors of daily newspapers all over the world allow the sports industry to set the agenda and the priorities for coverage of sports events. That is the main conclusion of the International Sports Press Survey 2005 which has surveyed 10,007 articles in 37 newspapers from 10 different countries.

Three years ago Michel Zen-Ruffinen had to leave the highest administrative post in world football after a showdown with FIFA's powerful president Sepp Blatter.

The Olympic Winter Games in Italy has become a focal point for appropriate means to fight doping in sport.

DR Sport from the Danish Broadcasting Corporation has agreed to become host broadcaster for Play the Game and will also use the conference as the basis for a special theme night about “Sport and Fraud” on the national DR2 television channel

Greece is rapidly becoming a very dangerous place for sports journalists. On 30 September 2005, sports journalist Periklis Stellas was brutally attacked by an unknown assailant – taking the number of sports journalists attacked in Greece up to three within the past year.