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ESPN's Doria Provides SSI Gift

August 28, 2018

ESPN's Doria Provides SSI Gift

Vince Doria

Vince Doria, former vice president and director of news at ESPN, has generously gifted the Sports and Society Initiative with financial support for our thought-provoking panel discussions.

Doria, a Youngstown, Ohio native and Ohio State University journalism graduate, has made a $5,000 gift every year for five years.

While at ESPN he unified the company’s cross-platform newsgathering efforts; and oversaw content on SportsCenter, Outside the Lines and E:60. Before ESPN, Doria worked for The National Sports Daily, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Columbus (Ohio) Citizen-Journal, and the Ashtabula (Ohio) Star-Beacon.

Doria won 29 Emmys over the course of his career and retired in 2015.