Mixed zone
In the mixed zone (English for mixing area, mixed area ) is an area of a stadium or a sports venue in which reporters and athletes can directly after a game or an event come together to ask questions and short interviews to give.
nature
The location of this zone can vary. Sometimes it is located in the underground corridors of a stadium or on the edge of the field on the way the athletes to or from the changing rooms. In order to give the multitude of international reporters the opportunity to address the athletes, the mixed zone is often designed as a slalom path on which the athletes move. The journalist Wolfgang Golz wrote about the interview area at the 2006 soccer World Cup :
"At soccer world championships it is one of the few places for sports journalists to catch fresh and emotional statements from the national players as soon as possible after the games."
The background of the mixed zone is usually pasted by the sponsors and advertising partners of the event and the athletes are separated from the journalists by barriers .
literature
- Jürgen Schwier , Claus Leggewie : Competitive games: the staging of sport and politics in the media . Campus, 2006, ISBN 3-593-38032-3 .
- Thomas Horky: Experience reports and studies on the European Football Championship . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-2739-8 , pp. 16 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ^ Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands: The Broadcast Journalism Handbook . Pearson Education, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4058-2434-7 , pp. 229 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Wolfgang Golz: Encounters in the mixed zone. In: wm2006.deutschland.de. June 19, 2006, archived from the original on April 13, 2015 ; accessed on May 20, 2019 .