See Where Ex-ESPNers Ended Up Year After Mass Layoffs

The biggest employer of former ESPNers appears to be The Athletic.

San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore is interviewed by John Clayton of ESPN after 24-14 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in NFL Network Thursday Night Football game at Qwest Field in Seattle, Wash. on December 14, 2006. (Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore is interviewed by John Clayton of ESPN after 24-14 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in NFL Network Thursday Night Football game at Qwest Field in Seattle, Wash. on December 14, 2006. (Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images)
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About a year ago, the landscape of sports media was altered when ESPN laid off a number of popular reporters, columnists, anchors, hosts and analysts with established presences on TV and ESPN.com.

Gone were SportsCenter anchors, Darren Haynes and Jaymee Sire, 17-year veteran MLB writer Jayson Stark, veteran NFL reporters Ed Werder and John Clayton, NBA writer Marc Stein and many, many well-known others.

Now that the dust has had a year to settle, many of the axed ESPNers have found work elsewhere, some in similar roles and some in entirely different positions.

The biggest employer of former ESPNers appears to be The Athletic, a paywall-protected sports site that has filled its verticals on college basketball and college football with a number of axed ESPN employees including Dana O’Neil, Chantel Jennings, David Lombardi and Stark.

Other media companies have also snapped up some of the former employees including Stein going to The New York Times, Sire going to the Food Network and Werder going to Westwood One.

To see where the rest of the axed employees ended up, see the full “Where Are They Now?” list at Awful Announcing.

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