Jeremy Schaap
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One of ESPN’s most respected and longest-tenured personalities, Jeremy Schaap has been with the company since 1994. He currently hosts E:60, the network’s flagship magazine show, and Outside the Lines, ESPN’s flagship journalism show.
One of ESPN’s most respected and longest-tenured personalities, Jeremy Schaap has been with the company since 1994. He currently hosts E:60, the network’s flagship magazine show, and Outside the Lines, ESPN’s flagship journalism show.
In 2015, Schaap won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on human rights and social justice issues, a first for ESPN. The RFK Center honored Schaap for his story exposing the plight of migrant laborers in Qatar.
Schaap has also won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, two National Headliner Awards, a Peabody Award and more than 12 national Sports Emmy Awards. He is the author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, a New York Times bestseller, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics.
Also in 2015, Schaap was nominated for a national News and Documentary Emmy Award—a first for ESPN—for an E:60 profile of a survivor of extreme domestic violence.
Born in New York City, Schaap is a 1991 graduate of Cornell University and lives in Connecticut with his family.
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