Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Kevin Fishbain, senior writer at The Athletic, interviews sports media personalities about their origin stories. Each week, reporters, columnists, play-by-play announcers, sports radio hosts, television anchors, producers and more will tell Kevin about their first jobs in the industry, and how they broke in.
Podcasting since 2025 • 22 episodes
Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
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Bruce Feldman, national college football insider for The Athletic and sideline reporter for Fox
In episode 21, Kevin chats with Bruce Feldman, national college football insider for The Athletic. In addition to his written work at The Athletic, Feldman co-hosts the podcast "The Audible" and is a sideline reporter for Fox's college football...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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50:26
Adam Hoge and Adam Jahns, Bears reporters and podcast hosts at CHGO
In episode 20, Kevin chats with Adam Hoge and Adam Jahns, hosts of the aptly-named "Hoge and Jahns" podcast about the Chicago Bears. They've covered the Bears alongside Kevin for over a decade. It's a special triple-origin-story episode, as Hog...
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Episode 20
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Bryan Curtis, editor-at-large at the Ringer, co-host of The Press Box
In episode 19, Kevin chats with Bryan Curtis, an editor-at-large at The Ringer and co-host of the media podcast, "The Press Box," one of the podcasts that helped inspire this one. Curtis got his start as an intern at the New Republic before hea...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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41:19
Jori Epstein, Yahoo senior NFL reporter
In episode 18, Kevin chats with Jori Epstein, who has covered the NFL at Yahoo since 2022. Prior to that, she worked for USA Today with a focus on the Dallas Cowboys. She won the Terez A. Paylor Emerging Writer Award in 2022 as voted on by the ...
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Episode 18
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40:52
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN senior college football writer
In episode 17, Kevin chats with Adam Rittenberg, who has covered college football at ESPN full-time since 2008, but has been affiliated with ESPN dot com dating back to an internship in 2001. Rittenberg's journalism career even dates back to hi...
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Episode 17
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