Reporting about powerful people can be a dangerous line of work. In Azerbaijan, it may cost you your freedom. Investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova is currently in jail for exposing corrupt practices in the Azeri elite. Play the Game has invited her to speak at the conference in October.

The end of the lengthy legal battle between freelance journalist Laura Robinson and VANOC CEO John Furlong is drawing near. Furlong dropped his defamation charges against the journalist in March this year, and Robinson’s counterclaim will be heard in court on 15 June.

With a newly launched English version, the e-magazine Sport Executive, featuring stories about sport and society, will now be available to an international crowd.

The Centre for Journalism Ethics based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites to a one-day conference on the subject of ethics and sports journalism on April 10, 2015.

After more than two years of legal battle between Laura Robinson, a freelance investigative journalist, and former VANOC CEO John Furlong, a trial date has now been set for Robinson’s case against Furlong.

Sports journalism is first and foremost entertainment. But is it really journalism’s task to do PR work for the world it is writing about? In the second of two articles on investigative journalism in sport, leading journalists call for more media who dare to delve behind the glossy facade of sport.

Investigative journalism is scarce in the sports world. A few lone wolves are breaking away from the pack – but not without considerable personal and economic consequences. In the first of two articles on investigative journalism in sport, freelance writer Lars Andersson portrays three journalists who regularly challenge sport’s self-image.

Investigative journalist Laura Robinson has launched a defamation suit against John Furlong, former CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Games as the latest step in a 14-month long legal battle initiated by Furlong.