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
Paul Tenorio, The Athletic’s senior soccer writer
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In episode 61, Kevin chats with Paul Tenorio, senior writer at The Athletic covering soccer and author of “The Messi Effect,” available now. Before becoming one of the country’s authorities on soccer, Tenorio studied journalism at Northwestern, and you’ll hear about his internship at the St. Louis Dispatch and what he learned from trying to write about Jim Edmonds. Tenorio’s first full-time job was at the Washington Post, a dream for many journalists and he’ll detail how he got the job and what he learned getting started. Ahead of the World Cup, you’ll want to hear how Paul Tenorio broke in.