Roxanne Jones
Deputy Editor
ESPN The Magazine
NABJ Sports Task Force
Immediate Past Chairperson
19 East 34th Street
New York, N.Y.
W# (212) 515-1016
Email roxanne.jones@espnmag.com
ESPN The Magazine
NABJ Sports Task Force
Immediate Past Chairperson
19 East 34th Street
New York, N.Y.
W# (212) 515-1016
Email roxanne.jones@espnmag.com
ESPN The Magazine welcomed Roxanne Jones to the staff in December 1997 as the senior editor of
its professional football and boxing coverage. She was one of a small team journalists who helped
to successfully launch ESPN The Magazine in March of 1998.
In October 1999, she was promoted to deputy editor and in March 2000 she moved on from football
and boxing to oversee The Magazine's ever-expanding lifestyle coverage, including "The Life"
department and special expanded sections. Other areas under Jones include the popular "Total
Access" and "Outtakes" departments.
In addition to her role at The Magazine, Jones is executive editorial producer of ESPN television The
Life and oversees editorial content for show. Part of the ESPN Original Entertainment unit, the weekly
series debuted in January 2001 and examines the ways in which sports meets popular culture. The
Life takes viewers beyond the game and into the lives of today's top athletes, to see and hear about
the relationships, families, hobbies, fashions, music and realities that comprise the modern sports
star's Life.
Before joining The Magazine, Jones was an assistant sports editor at the New York Daily News.
Starting her career in broadcasting, Jones served as a news reporter and anchor at a cable station in
New London, Conn., and then as a radio news reporter and anchor at WALE-AM in Fall River, Mass.
She eventually moved to print, working as a copy editor and reporter at The News-Times in Danbury,
Conn. In 1992, Roxanne began her tenure as an editor and staff reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
where she won several awards for her editing.
Jones graduated from Penn State University with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and did her
graduate work at the University of Connecticut, studying art history.
Roxanne lives in beautiful Brooklyn, N.Y., with her husband Dave-a journalist, and son Malcolm-a
Knicks fan.
its professional football and boxing coverage. She was one of a small team journalists who helped
to successfully launch ESPN The Magazine in March of 1998.
In October 1999, she was promoted to deputy editor and in March 2000 she moved on from football
and boxing to oversee The Magazine's ever-expanding lifestyle coverage, including "The Life"
department and special expanded sections. Other areas under Jones include the popular "Total
Access" and "Outtakes" departments.
In addition to her role at The Magazine, Jones is executive editorial producer of ESPN television The
Life and oversees editorial content for show. Part of the ESPN Original Entertainment unit, the weekly
series debuted in January 2001 and examines the ways in which sports meets popular culture. The
Life takes viewers beyond the game and into the lives of today's top athletes, to see and hear about
the relationships, families, hobbies, fashions, music and realities that comprise the modern sports
star's Life.
Before joining The Magazine, Jones was an assistant sports editor at the New York Daily News.
Starting her career in broadcasting, Jones served as a news reporter and anchor at a cable station in
New London, Conn., and then as a radio news reporter and anchor at WALE-AM in Fall River, Mass.
She eventually moved to print, working as a copy editor and reporter at The News-Times in Danbury,
Conn. In 1992, Roxanne began her tenure as an editor and staff reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
where she won several awards for her editing.
Jones graduated from Penn State University with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and did her
graduate work at the University of Connecticut, studying art history.
Roxanne lives in beautiful Brooklyn, N.Y., with her husband Dave-a journalist, and son Malcolm-a
Knicks fan.
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