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
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 his youth, when he worked for a children's news service as an 11-year-old. Rittenberg details what ESPN.com was like in the early days, how he got his start at the Daily Herald in Chicago, and what he tells his journalism students. Hear how Adam Rittenberg broke in.