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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Rhiannon Walker and Britt Ghiroli of The Athletic and writer and educator Jane McManus

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3721 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Episode 128 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features three guests for a roundtable discussion on the Jared Porter story and sexual harassment of female sports reporters: Rhiannon Walker, a staff writer who covers Washington football team for The Athletic; Jane McManus, the Director of the Marist's Center for Sports Communication, a Deadspin sports columnist and the co-host of “Ladies Room” podcast with Julie DiCaro, and Britt Ghiroli, a national MLB writer for The Athletic and an MLB Network contributor. In this podcast Ghiroli, McManus and Walker discuss how they processed the Porter story; getting sent penis pics from sources and potential sources they covered; how often sexual harassment happens in the business; Ghiroli’s piece in the Athletic and the line of “if you’re too nice, you are asking for trouble and if you aren’t nice enough, you’re a bitch”; the exhaustion of dealing with this during your career, 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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everybody this is richard dutch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producers are Patrick Antonetti and Sean Cherry.

0:44.0

In today's podcast, a roundtable with three female sports reporters, three of the best of what they do.

0:50.5

Rianne and Walker is a staff writer who covers the Washington football team for the athletic.

0:54.8

Jane McManus is the director of the Maris Center for Sports Communication,

0:58.8

a deadspin sports columnist and the co-host of Ladies' Room with Julie DeCaro,

1:03.6

and Britt Giroli is a national MLB writer for the athletic and an MLB network contributor.

1:11.0

In this podcast, we discuss ESPN's Jared Porter's story.

1:16.7

And beyond that, the sexual harassment of female sports reporters and what it is like to be a woman on a beat.

1:25.1

I cannot appreciate the honesty of these three women.

1:29.0

I can't sort of appreciate them coming on and being as honest as they were enough.

1:34.6

So Rianne Walker, Jane McManus, Brit Charoli, all coming up on the sports media podcast.

1:41.8

This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues

1:44.9

as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.

1:48.3

As good as it gets.

1:49.6

And you can stream every moment live on Sky Sports.

1:53.3

Well, it's just wonderful.

1:54.6

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