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
Seth Wickersham, ESPN senior writer
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In episode 42, Kevin chats with Seth Wickersham, senior writer at ESPN and author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," a New York Times bestseller. Wickersham has won numerous awards for his writing and he's profiled the likes of Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck and Jim Harbaugh. You'll hear about how Wickersham got into sportswriting while growing up in Alaska, interning at his hometown paper, and covering a Super Bowl as a college student with his classmate, Wright Thompson. As someone who has built a ton of trust among the NFL's biggest power brokers, Wickersham offers great advice to young writers. Hear how Seth Wickersham broke in.