John Skipper

John Skipper
Born	John Skipper Lexington, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality	American
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	UNC-Chapel Hill
Employer	ESPN Inc.

John Skipper is an American businessman and is the president of ESPN Inc. and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks as of January 1, 2012.

In June 1997, Skipper became senior vice president and general manager of ESPN the Magazine. Since October 2005, he has served as executive vice president of content.

Skipper attended Lexington Senior High School in Lexington, North Carolina. He then attended UNC-Chapel Hill and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature. After receiving his master's degree in the same field from Columbia University, he went to work for Rolling Stone, starting as a secretary but moved up. He also worked for Us and Spin before becoming senior vice president of Disney Publishing Group.^[1]

John Skipper's disregard of eSports as a "real sport," referring to them as a "competition" instead, has been negatively noted by various websites.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

External links

• Official ESPN Bio

References

1. "Lexington native to head ESPN". Winston-Salem Journal. 2011-11-23. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
2. Schwartz, Nick (2014-09-06). "ESPN's president says that eSports are not 'real sports,' and he's wrong". USA Today.
3. Hillier, Brenna (2014-09-08). "ESPN boss says eSports are not "real sports"". VG247.
4. Reahard, Jef (2014-09-08). "ESPN boss: E-sports aren't sports". Engadget.
5. Tassi, Paul (2014-09-07). "ESPN Boss Declares eSports 'Not A Sport'". Forbes.
6. Gera, Emily (2014-10-01). "Does eSports need ESPN before the mainstream accepts it?". Polygon.