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The Press Box

Dianna Russini Resigns From The Athletic

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Press Box, breaking news: Dianna Russini resigned from The Athletic. So Bryan was joined by Joel Anderson and Nora Princiotti to give their reactions to the resignation and discuss what they think could be next for Russini. Before the news broke, the trio recorded a whole other podcast about their thoughts on the Vrabel-Russini story (16:39), and they discussed what it’s like being a woman in sports media (54:30) and what the point of sports insiders is in today’s media landscape (1:04:19). Hosts: Bryan Curtis and Joel AndersonGuest: Nora PrinciottiProducers: Bruce Baldwin, Isaiah Blakely, and Jamie YukichAdditional Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, media consumers, Brian Curtis, Joel Anderson and Nora Preciati here,

0:18.9

what you're about to hear is a two-part podcast.

0:22.0

Part one was a long and hopefully interesting discussion about Diana Rossini,

0:26.2

Mike Frable, and the Perils of Insiderdom.

0:29.5

Part two is our reaction to the news that just broke.

0:33.9

And you're going to hear that now.

0:35.7

Dina Rossini has resigned from the athletic as of Tuesday afternoon.

0:42.5

Nora, what's your first reaction?

0:44.8

I'm sad.

0:46.6

Even, you know, I think we can say that maybe there were things that were pretty clearly

0:53.5

done wrong here.

0:56.0

And I say that even just about the existence of the photos that started the whole thing,

1:01.6

regardless of what they actually represent.

1:04.6

And this can still be a bummer.

1:06.4

This can still be someone who's done a lot of good work who, you know,

1:10.4

is a representative of women in a

1:12.5

particular type of NFL media. And also just this seems painful and unpleasant, basically,

1:18.1

for everyone involved. So I think there are things about this that have been titillating since

1:24.7

the jump. And I have mostly tried to kind of resist those.

1:28.2

But I think we all fall into it in moments.

1:31.8

And then once the real consequences start kind of coming out,

1:35.6

you just go, oh, man, stinks.

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