Roxane Coche
Associate Professor/Chair | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Roxane Coche's research focuses on sports media and media pedagogy.
Biography
Roxane Coche is internationally recognized for her scholarship on mass media and sports. As an educator, she has taught undergraduate and graduate students in broadcast, sports journalism, and entrepreneurial media. She began her career as a freelance sports reporter and producer in Paris. She worked on major events such as the 2008 Soccer European Championship, 33rd America’s Cup and 2010 Olympic Games, 2008 U.S. Open, 2010 Australian Open, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Areas of Expertise (7)
Olympics
Video and Film Production
Sports and Society
International and Intercultural Communication
Multimedia Journalism
Sports Media
Post-Production
Media Appearances (3)
Roxane Coche Comments on Growing Popularity of Soccer and Formula One with American Viewers
UF College of Journalism and Communications online
2022-06-22
Roxane Coche, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology associate chair and assistant professor, was featured in a June 20 episode of “The Loop with Christian Bryant.” The episode, “How Soccer and Formula One Are Winning Over American Fans,” focuses on the growing sports media landscape due to more streaming options and more sports that are available for viewing.
Roxane Coche Comments on How Sports Journalists’ Reporting Can Affect the Mental Health of Athletes
UF College of Journalism and Communications online
2022-05-24
Roxane Coche, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology associate chair and assistant professor, was quoted in “What is Sports Media’s Role When it Comes to Mental Health?” published in Global Sports Matters on May 17. The article focuses on the complicated and sometimes difficult relationship between athletes and sports journalists and references research by Coche and a team of scholars from around the world on meta-journalistic discourse.
Roxane Coche Comments on the NFL’s Quest to Bring American Football to Europe
UF College of Journalism and Communications online
2021-10-15
Roxane Coche, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Sports Journalism and Communication associate director and Media Production, Management, and Technology assistant professor, is featured in “Why the NFL Hasn’t Won Over Europe… Yet” a podcast on Cheddar News posted on Oct. 15. The podcast chronicles the NFL’s decades-long history of trying to bring American football to Europe and the attempt to win over the hearts of European sports fans.
Articles (2)
Front-page prominence and newspaper ownership: Examining US women’s national team coverage after 2015 and 2019 World Cup victories
JournalismRoxane Coche, Travis R. Bell
2023-03-19
The FIFA Women’s World Cup was a steeple of professional sport in the summers of 2015 and 2019. Did newspapers deem the story newsworthy enough to reach the front page? This content analysis of over 900 U.S. newspapers’ front pages published on July 6, 2015 (the day after the 2015 WWC final) or July 8, 2019 (the day after the 2019 WWC final) indicates that, for 1 day, newspapers avoided the trap of gendered, trivialized sport representation.
Women Take Power: A Case Study of Ghanaian Journalists at the Russia 2018 World Cup
Sociology of Sport JournalRoxane Coche
2021-07-30
Women have been entering the sports journalism industry in growing numbers around the world but are still oftentimes sidelined (Franks & O’Neill, 2016). Many issues have been raised for female sports journalists over the years: they are constantly “challenged by gender stereotypes and biases, sexism, and unfriendly working environments and conditions” (Arnold, Chen, & Hey, 2015, p. 36).
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