ESPN investigative reporter Paula Lavigne and ESPN senior writer Tom Junod on the predator at Penn State before Jerry Sandusky

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Episode 197 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests — ESPN investigative reporter Paula Lavigne and ESPN senior writer Tom Junod. They are the co-authors of “Untold,” a 30,000-word piece that investigates the horrific actions of Todd Hodne, a former football player and student at Penn State in the late 1970s who was a serial predator and ultimately a murder. The piece took two years to report. In this podcast Lavigne and Junod discuss how they learned of Hodne’s story; the reporting process for their piece; how they characterized Penn State’s response to their queries; if the piece says something about the silence that happens in college football towns; the incredible strength of Betsy Sailor, and the story of Betsy and Irv Pankey; how they view Joe Paterno after their reporting; the decision to contact Jerry Sandusky; what happens next with the story; the resources ESPN gave them to report; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.4	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast, my producer, Patrick Anthony. Two guests this week, they are together. ESPN investigative reporter Paula Levine and ESPN senior writer, Tom Juneode. And we go 45 minutes or so on the predator at Penn State before Jerry Sandusky.
1:29.2	Paula and Tom are the co-writers of Untold, 30,000-word piece that investigates the horrific actions of Todd Hodney,
1:36.9	who was a former football player and student at Penn State University in the late 1970s,
1:41.2	was also a serial predator and ultimately a murderer.
1:45.1	The piece that they did took two years to report.
1:48.2	ESPN put a ton of resources to their credit into this piece.
1:52.7	And it's a pretty extraordinary piece of sports journalism about a story that I had never heard of.
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