Jemele Hill on what’s next for ESPN and Fabian Ardaya on covering Shohei Ohtani

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Episode 151 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests. First up is Jemele Hill, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, the host of the “Jemele Hill is Unbothered” podcast for Spotify, and a creative adviser for Meadowlark Media. She is followed by Fabian Ardaya who covers the Dodgers for The Athletic but up until May covered the Angels and Shohei Ohtani. In this podcast, Hill discusses the impact of the New York Times story that focused on Rachel Nichols saying Maria Taylor earned the job to host 2020 NBA finals coverage because ESPN was “feeling pressure” on diversity; what she expects Taylor do when her ESPN contract expires before the end of this month; whether you can work for management you don’t trust; how this chapter impacts people of color working at ESPN and particular black women in front of and behind the cameras; the ESPN future for Nichols; Hill’s podcast network to elevate the voices and stories of Black women, and more. Ardaya discusses his experience covering Ohtani; how the Angels handle media access for him; his first time interacting with him; what; his desire to market himself; interacting with Japanese media on the beat; misconceptions about Mike Trout as a front-facing person in baseball; what he thought about Stephen A. Smith’s comments on Ohtani and the conversation afterward, 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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0:37.4	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Patrick Antonetti. Our guest this week, two excellent guests. First up, Jamel Hill, a contributing writer for the Atlantic. The host of the Jamel Hill is Unbothered podcast for Spotify, Creative Advisor for Metrolark Media.
0:55.3	In this podcast, Jamel discusses the impact of the New York Times story that focused on
1:01.9	Rachel Nichols saying Maria Taylor earned the job to host of 2020 NBA Finals coverage
1:06.8	because ESPN was feeling pressure on diversity, what she expects Maria Tela to do when her contracts expires before the end of this month.
1:16.6	Whether you can work for management, you might not trust how this chapter impacts people of color, and particularly black women who work at ESPN, what she thinks the future of Rachel Nichols might be. And the conversation,
1:32.4	as it usually is with Jamel, was really insightful and interesting. And I appreciate her time.
1:38.1	She's followed by my colleague at The Athletic Fabian Ardaya. And he's had a really interesting
1:43.7	couple of years. He covered the Los Angeles
1:46.1	Angels up until May. Now he covers the Dodgers. And so he's had a ton of experience dealing with
1:51.5	Shohei Otani and the press coverage there. And I appreciate him coming on. Really interesting,
1:56.8	just how the angels have handled Otani, how Otani interacts with the press there, and as Fabian
2:03.3	discusses, a lot of Japanese media who deal with Otani on a daily basis. Fobin's thoughts on
2:10.6	Stephen A. Smith's comments and Otani and the conversation that Smith's comments provoked
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