National Association of Black Journalists Demands Meeting With Disney Brass Over Maria Taylor-Rachel Nichols Controversy
said NABJ president Dorothy Tucker. “The silence and apparent inaction by ESPN leaders over the last year is deafening and, as a result, NABJ is requesting a meeting with Bob Iger, executive chairman at The Walt Disney Company, which owns ESPN; Bob Chapek, CEO of The Walt Disney Company; and Jimmy Pitaro, chairman of ESPN.”Following the uproar over Nichols comments, which were rehashed over the weekend in a New York Times story that examined the internal fallout at ESPN, Nichols was left off of NBA Finals coverage, for which she was previously served as the sideline reporter.