Jemele Hill

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Episode 23 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jemele Hill. In this podcast, Hill discusses leaving ESPN after 12 years; why she decided to leave; how one goes about negotiating a buyout with ESPN; the role of management changes at SportsCenter that led to her leaving SC6; whether ESPN management wanted her to stay or leave the company; why SC6 was not a viewership hit; the role of former ESPN president John Skipper in her career and the impact of Skipper’s leaving the network because of a cocaine addiction and the subsequent impact of that addiction; whether ESPN was too deep in political talk; her Twitter feed in the era of Donald Trump; her thoughts on the comments of Disney Chairman Bob Iger regarding ESPN swinging the pendulum a little bit too far away from sports; the culture of ESPN under new president Jimmy Pitaro; ESPN’s commitment to journalism regarding the NFL in the Pitaro era; what she will be writing for The Atlantic, where she will work as a staff writer; her role as the narrator for LeBron James' upcoming documentary series "Shut Up and Dribble; her thoughts on a conflict of interest writing about LeBron James and having financial ties to his production company; her upcoming podcast; her thoughts on the future of The Undefeated and much 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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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:04.6	My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino.
0:06.7	Our guest this week is Jamel Hill, who really would be no stranger to this podcast, given that she has been the topic of many discussions as part of the sports media roundtables that I do.
0:18.8	She's also been a guest a number of times on my old sports media podcast at Sports Illustrated.
0:24.4	Jamel Hill worked at ESPN for 12 years before leaving the company last month as part of a buyout with ESPN.
0:31.0	She will now work for the Atlantic and also has started a production company with her longtime friend, Kelly Carter,
0:38.3	and they are looking at developmental deals.
0:41.5	Jamel Hill, welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:44.3	Well, it is a pleasure to be here, and I'm sorry that so many hearts were broken
0:49.0	that I was not your new colleague, the athletic.
0:52.6	Yeah, Jamel Hill is not going to the athletic.
0:55.7	So all the people who are canceling their subscriptions, you know, it's okay.
1:00.7	You can come back.
1:01.9	It's safe for you to read.
1:04.7	Yeah, that was actually a rather hilarious day to read on Twitter all the people who were
1:09.2	canceling their subscriptions to the
1:11.2	athletic when you were heading to the Atlantic, which was maybe not amusing for you, but
1:17.1	certainly at least an amusing thing to read.
1:20.5	All right.
1:21.3	Go ahead, Jimo.
1:22.1	Definitely amusing for me, though.
1:23.6	I just felt bad for you guys because, let's see I like and respect so many of you all over
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