Four-part Muhammad Ali documentary from Ken Burns to air on PBS this fall A new four-part documentary on legendary boxer and civil rights activist Muhammad Ali, directed by filmmaker Ken Burns, will debut on PBS this fall, the network announced today (May 12).
The series, . May 12, 2021
A new four-part documentary on legendary boxer and civil rights activist Muhammad Ali, directed by filmmaker Ken Burns, will debut on PBS this fall, the network announced today (May 12).
The series, written and co-directed by Sarah Burns and David McMahon, will air from Sept. 19 to 22. Sarah Burns and McMahon’s collaborations with Ken Burns include
Following Monday afternoon’s announcement that the
Los Angeles Timeshad brought in ESPN’s Kevin Merida as executive editor, ESPN has named Merida’s replacement at The Undefeated. Merida had been the editor-in-chief of The Undefeated since joining ESPN in November 2015, and helped fully launch that site (after a long journey) in May 2016. He was also an ESPN senior vice president, responsible (since 2017) for news and enterprise coverage, and presided over the ESPN editorial board. How ESPN will fill those latter roles appears to be determined still, but they’ve now announced Merida’s replacement as editor-in-chief at The Undefeated: Raina Kelley, who’s been the managing editor of that publication since Merida hired her in November 2015. Here’s more on that promotion from an ESPN release:
Yesterday, after months of speculation, the
LA Times appointed its next executive editor. The paper has given the job to Kevin Merida, the editor in chief of
The Undefeated, an arm of ESPN that reports on the intersection of sports, race, and culture; prior to working there, he spent twenty-two years at the
Washington Post, including as a managing editor, and also worked as a reporter at the
Dallas Morning News and
Milwaukee Journal. Merida, who is Black, will be just the third top editor of color in the history of the
LA Times; his hiring follows a public promise that Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner, made last year to diversify the paper’s ranks. Merida will be tasked with growing the paper’s digital-subscriber base, which currently lags those of bigger rivals, as well as its own goals. “I see nothing but opportunity,” he told Meg James, an