ESPN Staffers Fault Network for Lack of Diversity, Holding Back Nonwhite Talent
thewrap.comreport published Monday by the New York Times.In interviews with two dozen current and former ESPN staffers, the Times detailed “a company that projected a diverse outward face, but did not have enough Black executives, especially ones with real decision-making power.”Amina Hussein, a Somali-American coordinating producer for some of the sports network’s “signature shows,” was so dismayed by the rapid promotion of white staffers that she advised Black co-workers to leave the company altogether in order to advance in their careers, the Times reported. (Hussein was promoted to senior coordinating producer this month — her first advancement in 12 years, the paper wrote.)Cari Champion, a former “SportsCenter” co-host who left ESPN earlier this.
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