As vice president of ESPN Magazine, an author of a new book set for release next year and a top executive at ESPN station, Roxanne Jones may seem to have a charmed career.
“As an African American female, I have felt that people looked at me thinking; What is she doing here? Even at ESPN,” Jones said, speaking at NYABJ’s High School Journalism Workshop at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus.
But, luck alone didn’t propel Jones’ professional career as a journalist, especially considering where she came from, where she’s been and where she’s headed.
Jones was raised by a single mother and grew up poor with her two siblings in Philadelphia.
“The only people who truly believed in me were a few librarians and my mother,” she said, adding that everyone else asked “Girl, what (you) doing?” Continue Reading
