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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Sports journalists routinely accept free tickets, travel and memorabilia from the teams they cover, a practice that requires more advocacy for better ethical standards, a Penn State University researcher said.
In a survey of 285 newspapers, about 43 percent of sports editors agreed that accepting such "freebies" didn't affect reporters' objectivity, said Marie Hardin, an assistant professor at the Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.
"A lot of sports journalists don't see the harm in them because they don't see it as changing the story," Hardin said Wednesday.
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