The joys and challenges of covering the World Cup in the digital age | Paul Chadwick

As a journalistic challenge, the spread of readers across regions and technologies is vastly different from the print-only era

Sport unites, divides, exhilarates and deflates. The football World Cup finals in Russia did all that again these past four weeks.

For those who love football, the feats and the cross-cultural spectacle of this World Cup were especially memorable. I’m one, but like any readers’ editor I am often made aware that a proportion of readers are indifferent to sport, or to football. I ask those readers to regard this column as a curiosity conveying something of the Guardian’s thriving international presence.

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