The journalist I chose to interview for my final presentation and paper for Ethics in Sports Media was USA Today and ForTheWin’s sports journalist, Nina Mandell. I came across one of Mandell’s articles on ForTheWin and admired her openness to communication with the public. I felt confident in receiving a response from Mandell and decided to email her requesting for a phone interview. Within just a few hours I heard back from her and she was ecstatic to hear I am a student of the Sports Illustrated veteran, Lars Anderson. Mandell informed me to call any day during the week and if she was unavailable, I was instructed to leave a voicemail. I called her on a Saturday afternoon and received her answering machine so I left a short voicemail,
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Between 2010 and 2012, Mandell had four different jobs including: Researcher for CBS College Sports. Multimedia Editor for New York Daily News and Senior Editor at Yahoo’s ThePostGame. In 2013, she became a Senior Writer for USA Today and ForTheWin, which she continues to hold this position. When I asked how she received her current position, she shared that a senior writer contacted her over LinkedIn asking if she would like to a sports game with him. Mandell said she was hesitant at first, however she decided to go. Since then, she was offered a position with ForTheWin and has been there for two and a half years. Mandell’s most noteworthy article to-this-day is one from a few years ago about Tim Shaw and his creative way of informing the public about his diagnosis of ALS, she said. Shaw used the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS as a way to share uneasy information with the public. “My favorite sport to write about is the NBA because it is the most aggressive and interesting sport,” Mandell said. “The NBA also uses social media in the most creative way and connects consistently with fans through various social media
Between 2010 and 2012, Mandell had four different jobs including: Researcher for CBS College Sports. Multimedia Editor for New York Daily News and Senior Editor at Yahoo’s ThePostGame. In 2013, she became a Senior Writer for USA Today and ForTheWin, which she continues to hold this position. When I asked how she received her current position, she shared that a senior writer contacted her over LinkedIn asking if she would like to a sports game with him. Mandell said she was hesitant at first, however she decided to go. Since then, she was offered a position with ForTheWin and has been there for two and a half years. Mandell’s most noteworthy article to-this-day is one from a few years ago about Tim Shaw and his creative way of informing the public about his diagnosis of ALS, she said. Shaw used the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS as a way to share uneasy information with the public. “My favorite sport to write about is the NBA because it is the most aggressive and interesting sport,” Mandell said. “The NBA also uses social media in the most creative way and connects consistently with fans through various social media