Katie Barnes, a feature writer for ESPN, joins Brian this week to talk about writing, reporting, Title IX, activism in journalism, transgender athletes, Maya Moore and more.
Katie talks about their career path to ESPN, and how their experience as an activist in the LGBTQ community helped their reporting. Katie and Brian do a deep dive into the three incredible stories Katie wrote for ESPN in June - about Maya Moore’s quest for justice; the rights of transgender athletes the future of women’s sports; and an interview with Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe. How did Katie juggle reporting and writing all three stories at the same time? How did a proposed story about Maya Moore’s faith turn into something so much bigger?
Katie discusses their writing process, how being an external processor and talking through stories helps them figure out a story’s big theme and structure.
Also, Brian learns about the feud between St. Olaf and Carlton. It’s a thing.
Inside WNBA legend Maya Moore’s extraordinary quest for justice
The battle over Title IX and who gets to be a woman in sports: inside the raging national debate
ESPYS co-hosts Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird plot their course as athlete activists, white allies
The Maddening Promise of Diamond DeShields
A Murder Foretold by David Grann
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