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.
Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain: A Sports Media Podcast
Jayson Stark, senior MLB writer at The Athletic
In Episode 4, Kevin chats with Jayson Stark, the 2019 BBWAA Career Excellence Award winner and 2024 National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame inductee. Jayson, who hosts the "Starkville" podcast, has been covering baseball since 1979, including stints at the Philadelphia Inquirer and ESPN. Long before he was on "Baseball Tonight," Jayson was a news reporter at the Providence Journal, covering city hall meetings. This is how he broke in.