ESPN investigative reporter T.J. Quinn on Brittney Griner’s return to America
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 262 of the Sports Media Podcast features T.J. Quinn, an investigative reporter for ESPN who has reported on the Brittney Griner case for ESPN since her imprisonment. In this podcast, Quinn discussed how he learned of the prisoner swap for Griner; his game plan for reporting the story; dealing with government sources; reporting on Griner getting a chance to do a light basketball workout; Griner’s life in Russia as best as Quinn could report; how Griner is doing psychologically and what is next for her; on Roger Carstens, the U.S. special presidential envoy for hostage affairs; the social media vitriol and Russian disinformation floating through Twitter and Quinn’s accounts; media outlets requesting Griner; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more.
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| 1:07.3 | Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:10.3 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest on this podcast, but a guest that's been on many times before he has done phenomenal work in the reporting of Brittany Griner. It is T.J. Quinn, an investigative reporter for ESPN. He's been assigned reporting on Brittany Griner for many, many months. He's |
| 1:29.0 | been on this podcast a couple of times. It's been incredibly generous with his work and with the |
| 1:34.5 | news that there's been a prisoner exchange. I wanted to bring TJ back on because I have some |
| 1:40.6 | questions and I think he'll have some answers that will be of interest to the people listening. |
| 1:45.3 | And I welcome T.J. Quayne back to the sports media podcast. |
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