A One on One with ESPN’s Clinton Yates

Join ESPN host Clinton Yates and Journalism and Mass Communication Professor Tony Moton for a conversation about how success in today's sports media market depends on versatility and a multitude of skill sets. 

Yates is a columnist, television commentator, and host for ESPN. In March 2024, Yates was named host of the ESPN Daily podcast. He joined ESPN in February 2016 as a member of the editorial team that launched Andscape, the Black multimedia content studio formerly known as The Undefeated. Yates’ profile has grown steadily across ESPN’s multimedia platforms. In addition to writing, he appears on multiple television programs, ESPN Radio, and more. 

Prior to ESPN, Yates worked for The Washington Post for nine years where he covered local news, sports, politics, pop culture, and more. He started as a local news editor in May 2007 for Express, the free daily focused on dining, music, movies, arts, fitness, shopping and more in the Washington D.C. area. He eventually moved to Metro, and finally Sports where he wrote for The Post’s popular “DC Sports Bog”. 

Moton is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He has earned journalism honors for sports feature writing from the Nevada Press Association (twice) and investigative reporting from the Kansas City Press Club. In 2003, he received a prestigious Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award while at UCLA for his feature-length screenplay All Bets Are On, about a Little League baseball player’s relationship with his charismatic but ill-fated grandfather. Moton maintains his screenwriting pursuits with several projects in development. 

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