Previously, as senior vice president, content, ESPN digital and print media, King was responsible for all content and the overall editorial direction of ESPN’s leading portfolio of digital and print sports properties, including text, audio, video and multimedia content. In 2016, he was named to the board of The Center for Investigative Reporting.
He’ll also meet with members of the Association for Women in Sports Media chapter on campus as well as several administrators and faculty members.Ī past Pulitzer Prize judge, King is a member of The Associated Press board of directors and the Poynter Institute’s National Advisory Board, where he serves as the chairman.
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Just five months into his current position, King was named by Fast Company among its “Most Creative People 2014.”Īlong with the free public session, King will visit students in the award-winning College of Communications course that produces a twice-a-week TV newscast. He was named senior vice president, “SportsCenter” and news in 2014, transitioning from the digital and print arena to oversee all of “SportsCenter” and ESPN’s newsgathering operations, and to lead the future efforts of the company’s biggest sub-brand. We’re grateful for his time.”Įarlier this year, Forbes Magazine recognized King as one of the top 25 most influential minorities in sports. “Rob is a thoughtful, dynamic, interesting - and not least of all, busy - man. “I’m excited to welcome Rob King to campus and thrilled that our students are getting the chance to engage with him,” Affleck said. John Affleck, the Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society and director of the Curley Center, will serve as moderator.
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The event is part of the ongoing Conversation Series presented by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. 17, in Founder’s Lounge at the Bryce Jordan Center. Rob King, senior vice president of “SportsCenter” and news for ESPN, will be featured at 6 p.m. A television executive who has shaped how ESPN’s cornerstone program “SportsCenter” presents the news will be featured during a free public session addressing “The Future of Sports Television” on the University Park campus in mid-October.
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