REPORT: Jemele Hill To Part Ways With ESPN

Over the past year or so, ESPN has parted ways with noticeable talent as they deal with declining ratings and constant controversies.

In the midst of all the firings at the Worldwide leader in sports were decisions to keep the remaining staff on the topics of sports and sports only. Jemele Hill was one of those people who wouldn’t just stick to sports and she was loved and hated for it.

Many called on ESPN to part ways with Hill, and they’ll somewhat get their wish as she plans to leave the company fairly soon.

As first reported by @JimMiller, @jemelehill is leaving ESPN. She approached management. Hill and @KelleyLCarter have a production company — Lodge Freeway Media — so that will be part of her post-ESPN world. She leaves ESPN in September after wrapping up some stuff. — Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) August 26, 2018

This actually isn’t new news as she stated she would be leaving the company earlier this year.

“Jemele Hill will no longer stick to just sports. After 12 years at ESPN, the Detroit native — who appeared on OZY Fest’s main stage on Sunday — announced in front of a packed crowd that she’s making plans to leave the world of sports for life behind the camera, where she will focus on stories about race and gender.

Earlier this year, Hill moved from her role as host of the 6 p.m. SportsCenter on ESPN specifically to take on the issues of race and gender in sports at the company’s Undefeated platform. That move followed from a pair of controversial moments for Hill on Twitter, one in which she called President Donald Trump a white supremacist, and another in which she suggested the best way to have NFL owners hear fan voices on social issues was to boycott advertisers. That latter outburst netted Hill a suspension.

“Even before everything happened, I was already in the mindset of wondering what was next,” she says. She had planned to wait out her contract. But her suspension and the backlash “have made me think about it sooner and [to] plot out what the next 10–15 years of my life would be.”

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