In taking over management of the brand new Sports activities Manufacturing crew, Mike McQuade, a 37-year worker at ESPN, has been promoted to EVP. Most not too long ago, Mike was the producer for Tennis (Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open), NHL, Boxing, Golf (Masters & PGA Championship), and SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt – a program he helped create. Amongst his many successes, Mike not too long ago led our protection as producer of the breaking information of the arrest of Scottie Scheffler, an important instance of his potential to shortly lead a crew accountable for essential content material with excellence. Along with his intensive manufacturing background, Mike is well-known for his storytelling potential throughout platforms, progressive mindset, consideration to element and his tireless push to ship outcomes. He’s additionally a pacesetter who takes the time to mentor staff of all ranges. Mike will relocate to Bristol. Particulars about Mike’s new crew and the construction of his group may be discovered under.
Subsequent, with our continued concentrate on increasing to achieve new audiences and higher put together for our DTC future, one other robust suggestion was to streamline and centralize digital, social and streaming, enabling extra horizontal dialogue and technique throughout platforms, aligned underneath one chief – Kaitee Daley.
Moreover, to broaden our international sports activities imprint, we’re bringing collectively our Worldwide Manufacturing crew and our ESPN Deportes and Worldwide Editorial groups, together with Enterprise Operations for Worldwide, underneath one chief – Freddy Rolón.
Lastly, the SIG group is being divided into two practical areas – Analysis and ESPN Stats & Evaluation. Analysis is a key group that helps our storytelling capabilities and higher aligns with the Information & Leisure group, led by Maria Soares, underneath David Roberts. Stats & Evaluation is essential to our digital technique and can transfer to the newly shaped Digital, Social & Streaming Content material crew underneath Kaitee Daley, particularly underneath Nicole Pelaez-Dandrea.
With that stated, my direct experiences are David Roberts, Mike McQuade, Kaitee Daley, Freddy Rolón, Brian Lockhart, Chris Calcinari and Nick Parsons.
David Roberts, EVP, Govt Editor, Sports activities Information & Leisure
David has performed phenomenal work with our NBA and WNBA properties and studio programming, and I thank him for the wonderful, regular progress of every part related to each leagues and our day by day exhibits. David will now transition to supervise Sports activities Information and Leisure, and his direct experiences will probably be SVP Maria Soares (main our newly centralized Sports activities Information and Protection, together with Analysis and Digital Editorial), SVP Mike Foss (Sports activities Studio and Leisure, together with SportsCenter), and VP Chris Buckle (Investigative and Enterprise Journalism).
- Reporting to Maria Soares: VP David Kraft (Newsgathering), VP Lauren Reynolds (Digital Editorial, Common Protection Group), Sr. Director Kristie Blasi (Analysis & Bottomline), VP Jack Obringer (Wraps, Gross sales, Integration, Editorial Graphics Producers) and Sr. Director Stacey Pressman (Expertise Producers).
- Reporting to Mike Foss: VP Pete McConville (7am SC, Get Up, First Take), newly promoted VP James Dunn (2p SC, ATH, PTI, weekend SC), VP Scott Clark (ESPN BET & Fantasy studio exhibits, ESPN BET Content material Integration, 6p SC), VP Johann Castillo (Late Night time & LA SC, SVP, Screening, RISE), VP Julie McGlone (CCU, SCEU), and newly promoted VP Justin Craig (Digital Manufacturing, Podcasts, Audio). Mike Foss will proceed his function working instantly with The Pat McAfee Present.
- Reporting to Chris Buckle: Sr. Deputy Editor Mike Drago (Investigative Journalism), Coordinating Producer I Rayna Banks (Manufacturing), Govt Director Scott Burton (Enterprise Journalism), newly promoted Sr. Director Eric Neel (Growth) and Sr. Deputy Editor Jena Janovy (Enterprise and Investigative Journalism).
