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ESPN’s John Skipper Plays Offense on Cord-Cutting In an interview, John Skipper dismissed the narrative that something fundamental is amiss at ESPN. He talked about the company’s plans to distribute more content online to reach cord-cutters.

ESPN President John Skipper: How I Work ESPN President John Skipper spoke to The Wall Street Journal about whether or not he'd hire a cord-cutter, Brady or Manning, and his favorite non-sports thing to watch on TV. Photo: Michelle McLoughlin for The Wall Street Journal

ESPN cuts 300 jobs as subscription fees shrink ESPN President John Skipper told staff Wednesday that the Disney-owned sports network will be eliminating jobs as part of "a number of organizational changes" at the company.

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The Sports Guy Vs. ESPN: How Bill Simmons Lost Bristol It was, he would later tell a confidant, like something out of The Godfather. Bill Simmons was meeting with two of the most powerful executives at ESPN, John Skipper and John Walsh, in a conference room in ESPN’s then-unfinished Los Angeles office Read more ... hard by the Staples Center. Within three years, this would be the Grantland office and thus the seat of Simmons’s power, but on this day he was feeling vulnerable, having spent much of 2008 in a sulk over one thing or another, whipsawed between his own petulance and his company’s prudishness. He’d had a run-in with Skipper a few months earlier. The then-VP had gotten uncharacteristically tetchy with him over some intramural sniping at ESPN’s newest big-ticket hire, Rick Reilly. Would the Sports Guy even have his job when he left the conference room in Los Angeles?

Bill Simmons And ESPN Are Parting Ways ESPN president John Skipper confirmed the news in a statement early Friday.