The International Sports Press Survey 2011 is a comparative study on the quality of sports reporting in print media. The editors, Thomas Horky and Jörg-Uwe Nieland, present an analysis of data from 22 countries and add more specific research in 14 selected country studies. The world's largest study of its kind helps to identify similarities and differences in sports reporting. The results are placed in the context of the print media crisis, and conclusions are drawn to deal with the new challenges for sports journalism.

Thomas Horky, Dr., is Professor for Sports Journalism at the MHMK (Macromedia University for Media and Communication) in Hamburg. He was research assistant at the Department of Sports science at the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg Institute of Sports Journalism as well as a lecturer at the Institute of Sports Journal-ism at the German Sports University in Cologne. His main research projects are quality of journalism, mediasport and staging and sports journalism and entertain-ment. He wrote several international contributions concerning sports and media, some books and is editor of "Sport & Communication".