The Arena Journal
The Arena Journal covers the business of sport — capital, media rights, leagues, venues, athlete economics and the technology reshaping the industry.
The Arena Journal was founded in 2020 on a simple premise: that sport is one of the largest and least rigorously covered industries in the world. Billions of people follow the results. Comparatively few outlets cover the capital structures, media contracts, labour agreements and infrastructure decisions that determine what the results are worth and who collects.
We cover sport the way a business paper covers any other sector — through its balance sheets, its contracts and its institutions. We do not report scores. We report on the machinery that makes the scores valuable.
Editorial standards
The Journal publishes analysis grounded in publicly available industry developments: rights cycles, published accounts, regulatory filings, governance decisions and disclosed transactions. Where we present figures as estimates or indicative models, we label them as such in the accompanying note. Where we publish an index, we state plainly that it is an illustrative composite rather than an investable product.
Disclosure
The Arena Journal is an independent demonstration publication. Its articles, bylines, indices and accompanying figures are original editorial content produced for this title. They are analytical essays about industry dynamics, not reports of record concerning named third parties, and the journalists listed on our masthead are contributors to this publication rather than a description of any other organisation’s staff. Nothing published here constitutes investment advice.
Corrections
We correct errors of fact promptly and in place, with a note appended to the article recording what was changed and when. Substantive corrections are additionally listed on this page. Readers who believe we have published an error should write to newsroom@arenajournal.com.
Masthead
The Journal is edited from London · New York · Singapore.
Picture credits
Photographs are sourced from Wikimedia Commons and Openverse under licences permitting commercial use and modification. Each has been cropped to a common ratio and colour-graded for consistency, so the images published here are adaptations of the originals; where the original carries a ShareAlike licence, the adaptation is made available under those same terms. Every photograph is credited beneath it, and the full list is below.
Photographs illustrate the subject matter of an article. They do not depict the specific events, organisations or people discussed in the text unless the caption says so.