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How Sports Journalism Took a Hit With ESPN’s Layoffs

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ESPN, yesterday, decided to lay off 100+ people today as they did their annual cuts. A lot of notable NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL beat writers got laid off and also anchors as well. This impact will have outrageous effects on the sports journalism industry.

Here is the list:

Anchors

Jade McCarthy
Marysol Castro
Jaymee Sire
Chris Hassel
Jay Crawford
Brendan Fitzgerald

College Football/NFL

Brett McMurphy
Ed Werder
Ashley Fox
Danny Kenell
Chantel Jennings
Greg Ostendorf

MLB

Jayson Stark
Jim Bowden

College Basketball/NBA

Calvin Watkins
Ethan Strauss
Justin Verrier
Len Elmore
Dana O’Neil

NHL

Pierre LeBrun
Scott Burnside
Joe McDonald

That is just some of the list, you can view the full list here: ESPN layoff: A running list of reporters, anchors fired by the network — The Washington Post.