A black female sportscaster spoke out against the president this week — sparking a surprising amount of controversy, given thecurrent approval ratings of the chief executive. Jemele Hill, the ESPNanchor who dragged Trump on Twitter, has a history…
Hill has been with ESPN since 2006, she's a columnist on ESPN.com and is often on Sportscenter, ESPN First Take, and Outside the Lines. Now let's take a look at some of the other femaleESPNanchors and reporters, some of them you know very well, and others are budding stars.
Linda Cohn ’81, an ESPNanchor for more than 20 years, hosted her milestone 5,000th broadcast of SportsCenter on Feb. 21. No one in the program’s 36-year history—male or female—has hosted more shows.
Sports brand ESPN has started giving staffers their walking papers as anticipated layoffs — expected to see as many as 100 employees let go — began today.
As ESPN grew into a sportsmedia powerhouse in the 1990s, its executives remained almost exclusively white and male. John Skipper, who was ESPN’s president until 2017, recalled a meeting of the company’s senior staff around 2000, when he was in charge of ESPN the Magazine.
ESPN may not have any sports writers left, but they still have time for feminist poets. Instead of navel-gazing, you should be celebrating!Sorry, that's not going to happen. Have another poem instead... The future is female, we hear, but the past -- the past is also female.
ESPNemployees had a tough week as the company eliminated 500 positions , laying off 300 workers while not filling open positions for an additional 200 spots. While employees all reacted in their own way, a pair of anchors Saturday morning took some time on the show to address the news.
The 31-year-old took to social media to share the announcement that he was joining ESPN as a SportsCenter anchor. He shared his journey to the top and credited his family with making his dreams come true.
• The Chicago Tribune, Yahoo, Sports Illustrated, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, ESPN, The Athletic and the Sun Sentinel employed the only femalesports editors among the largest (known in the industry as "A size") newspapers/websites.
ESPN’s Elle Duncan found herself in a bit of hot water after making a bold comment during the WNBA All-Star Game. At halftime, she noted how one team was really racking up the points over the…
As ESPN continues its path into the streaming era, the end of Around the Horn raises the question: What voices and values will define the network in the new era of sportsmedia?
ESPNanchor Sage Steele announced Tuesday that she is leaving the imperiled, Disney-owned sportsnetwork after settling a lawsuit. The motivation for leaving her place of employment for the last 16 years?
ESPN is reportedly planning on laying off about 100 employees on Wednesday, including many on-air personalities and ESPN.com writers. ESPN president John Skipper sent a memo out to employees on Wednesday morning notifying them about the changes that are coming.
In a letter to employees, ESPN president John Skipper wrote, “Dynamic change demands an increased focus on versatility and value, and as a result, we have been engaged in the challenging process of determining the talent — anchors, analysts, reporters...
