Lisa Wilson of The Athletic, ESPN’s Michael Eaves, Rana Cash of Savannah Morning News and Sportsnet’s (Canada) Donnovan Bennett

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Episode 102 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a conversation with four guests. First up is Lisa Wilson, the NFL editor for The Athletic and a former sports editor for The Buffalo News. She is followed by ESPN SportsCenter anchor Michael Eaves. He is followed by Rana Cash, the executive editor of the Savannah Morning News who was just recently the sports editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal. She is followed by Donnovan Bennett, a host, podcaster and writer for Sportsnet in Canada (where I work as well in addition to The Athletic). In this podcast, Wilson discusses how she is processing what she has watched this week in the United States following the death of George Floyd; serving as the nation's only black female sports editor at a major metropolitan daily when she worked at The Buffalo News; howshe would evaluate sports media in 2020 on issues of race, institutional racism and hiring practices; how the pipeline of hiring needs to change regarding sports media staffers of color; the impact of athletes speaking out right now in America, and more. Eaves discusses how he is processing what he is seeing in the United States right now; his experiences growing up black in Kentucky; how he views the sports media business at large on issues of race and institutional racism; the conversations he is having with his colleagues at the National Association of Black Journalists; how much freedom ESPN affords him professionally right now on social media to discuss and express issues involving race; how he views athletes speaking out right now and more. Cash discusses how she is processing what she is seeing in the United States right now; her experience growing up in Sanford, Florida; being the nation’s only African-American female sports editor at a major metropolitan daily; how the hiring pipeline in sports media can change; Lisa Wilson's influence on Cash; working in the city of Louisville right now; athletes speaking out and not speaking out; the words of Drew Brees; what she wants to do heading forward in journalism at the Savannah Morning News, and more. The podcasts concludes with Bennett on how he is processing what he is seeing in the United States and Canada right now; his experience growing up Black-Canadian in Toronto; why Canadians may want to frame this as an American issue but the reality of racial injustices in Canada; his piece on a particularly difficult month to be black in North America, the role of white athletes speaking up; whether sports has a role to play in bridging the racial divide in North America and much 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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0:28.7	everybody this is richard deitch and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:40.7	My producers are Patrick Antonetti and Sean Cherry.
0:44.6	This episode has four guests, and it's probably the most important one I've done, certainly in a long time.
0:53.4	My guests are Lisa Wilson of the athletic, ESPN's
0:57.1	Michael Leaves, Raina Cash of the Savannah Morning News, and Sports Nets, Donovan Bennett. These are four
1:05.4	sports journalists of color. You have, if you consume those publications or listen to those publications
1:14.0	or see those publications, you have read their work or been influenced by their work. Lisa Wilson,
1:19.4	who works with me as the NFL editor at The Athletic and a former sports editor for the Buffalo News
1:24.1	where she was the only black female sports editor of a Metropolitan Major
1:29.8	Daily at that time. Michael Leaves, of course, is an ESPN sports center anchor and has worked in
1:35.3	the business for a long time, including in Los Angeles as well as Kentucky. Raina Cash is about to be
1:42.8	the executive editor at the Savannah Morning News. She was just recently the sports editor at the Louisville Courier Journal. So again, Marina Cash, a pioneer in this business. And Donovan Bennett is my colleague at SportsNet host, podcaster, writer, who has done some phenomenal work there.
2:05.9	Podcast is about how all of these journalists are processing what has happened this week in the United States.
2:15.3	It's about their upbringing, both personally as well as professionally
2:21.8	in the business, issues of race and institutional racism and hiring practices, their thoughts
2:29.1	on athletes speaking out and athletes not speaking out, and where we're heading on all this. I tried my best
2:37.2	just really to listen more than anything else and I appreciate their time and them coming on.
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