- Rhiannon Walker
The four-month study done on diversity among Major League Baseball managers that Walker and ESPN’s stat crew conducted is what journalism’s all about. To release such an article that was more-or-less than 5,000 words detailing exactly what Jackie Robinson would have been disappointed with in 2018, five days after Jackie Robinson Day, is what journalism’s all about.
A few months later, Walker became The Athletic’s first Black woman on a National Football League beat, where she currently covers Washington.
