NPRAfter a series of setbacks that included the ousting of founding editor Jason Whitlock,ESPN’s site focusing on the intersection of race and sports is primed for a launch in 2016.
That’s according to Kevin Merida, the former Washington Post managing editor who left his post late last year to replace Whitlock at the helm of The Undefeated. In an interview with All Things Considered” host Michel Martin, and Merida said the site will likely launch sometime “before the year is too old” with the caveat that ESPN still needed some time to procure its house in order.“You don’t want to occupy the gumbo before the gumbo’s alert,” Merida said.
In his brief remarks to Martin, Merida described a vision for the site that goes past X’s and O’s to probe “how athletes reflect and feel beyond sports.” He cited the planned football boycott by University of Missouri players in response to racial inequality protests as the kind of story that The Undefeated might cover during his tenure. Read more
Source: poynter.org