Kavitha Davidson and Jane McManus on the New York Times story on Rachel Nichols and Maria Taylor

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Episode 150 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with two guests: Kavitha Davidson is a sports and culture writer for The Athletic and the host of Culture Calculus podcast. Jane McManus is the Director of the Marist's Center for Sports Communication and a Deadspin sports columnist. Both Davidson and McManus previously worked at ESPN. In this podcast Davidson and McManus discuss the New York Times piece on the storm at ESPN over Rachel Nichols’ comments about Maria Taylor; their experiences working as women at ESPN; how they view ESPN on issues of promoting women of color, women overall, and people of color; what they would do if they were Taylor, whose contract is coming up; how big a failure this is of senior management; whether ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro should speak publicly; Kayla Johnson, a digital video producer, being the only person known to be punished and how absurd that is; whether the NBA production situation is salvageable 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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0:00.0	This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.
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0:32.9	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich. Welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antenetti. Before we get started, just one note. I am away from the home studio, calling what I actually work in the home studio. It's kind of a joke in itself, but the point being,
0:54.5	um,
0:54.8	we're all on Zoom right now,
0:56.5	myself and my guests.
0:57.7	So apologies in advance.
0:59.8	This won't sound as,
1:01.1	uh,
1:01.4	it's perfectly fine as some of these other podcasts do,
1:05.3	but Patrick Antonini is a very,
1:07.8	very good producer,
1:08.5	so he'll do his best to make the sound as good as possible.
1:11.0	But I realized that the sound quality won't be like previous episodes.
1:15.7	But we figured just given the topic, it was worth doing a quick emergency pod.
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