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John Ourand

John Ourand has covered all things media for Sports Business Journal since 2006. Before then, he spent 12 years reporting on the media industry in the U.S. and Europe, reporting for International Cable magazine and serving as editor for such outlets as Cable World and CableFAX Daily. His journalism career started in 1990 as a reporter for a Washington Post-owned weekly newspaper based in Montgomery County, Md.

Forty Under 40: Derek Crocker

Weekly / Monday, June 26, 2023
During the 2018 college football season, Wisconsin traveled to Michigan for a mid-October game. It was a marquee game for Fox Sports, which used it to anchor the Saturday noon window. The move carried some risk at the time, since the biggest college football games...

Forty Under 40: Dev Sethi

Weekly / Monday, June 26, 2023
Back in the fall of 2020, it was apparent to Dev Sethi that the business around college sports was about to change as athletes began to profit from their name, image and likeness. From his role at the time as Meta’s...

Forty Under 40: Anmol Malhotra

Weekly / Monday, June 26, 2023
Anmol Malhotra recalls visiting the NFL’s New York headquarters in 2015 and trying to convince the league to work with Snapchat. Today, every league has a social media strategy. It was different eight years ago, especially for a social media company that, at the time, was...

Forty Under 40: Logan Swaim

Weekly / Monday, June 26, 2023
It’s not just that Logan Swaim helped launched a media company — The Volume — during the dark days COVID. It’s that Swaim, already a veteran of the media business at 39, found success by going against established norms. Take host...

TMRW Sports beefs up executive team

Morning Buzz / Thursday, June 22, 2023
TMRW Sports co-founder and CEO Mike McCarley is bulking up his executive team, hiring three execs with extensive sports business experience. The group hired former Wieden + Kennedy and CAA marketer Jarrett Dube to be CMO. Ironically, while at Wieden + Kennedy, Dube worked on...

ESPN makes moves to streamline programming responsibilities

Daily / Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The reorganization of ESPN’s content and programming departments continued this morning, as EVP/Programming & Acquisitions Roz Durant put out her own memo outlining the structure of her group that she wrote will “streamline the responsibilities of programming leadership.” Durant promoted Nick Dawson to SVP/College Sports Programming & Acquisitions and...

Burke Magnus selects new exec team for ESPN content

Daily / Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Three months after being named ESPN’s president of content, Burke Magnus has outlined his exec team, which will see Norby Williamson take over NFL programming and Dave Roberts oversee “The Pat McAfee Show.” As part of his moves, Magnus decided to split sports event and studio production responsibilities between...

Laura Gentile leaving ESPN after 20 years

Daily / Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Laura Gentile is leaving ESPN after a 20-year career to start her own business. Gentile, who rose to EVP of ESPN Marketing, is not part of the wave of layoffs hitting Disney and ESPN, having made the decision to leave on her own. She will remain with...
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