ESPN president, UNC alum John Skipper talks sports, media, leadership

Posted Apr 1, 2014
John Skipper became president of ESPN and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks in early 2012 -- a job, he says, that "only 115 million people in this country would like to have." Son of a postal carrier in North Carolina, he earned a master's degree in English literature at Columbia in the '70s and went into publishing. (Connecticut Post)

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