Thompson spoke to NPF’s Date & Accountability fellows in January 2022. Video, transcript and takeaways from her presentation are here.

Tisha Thompson is an investigative and enterprise reporter for ESPN. Her work appears on all platforms, including SportsCenter, Outside the Lines and SC Featured, as well as espn.com and The ESPN Daily podcast. She is regularly translated into other languages for her work that appears on ESPN Deportes and on its international sites.

Thompson is a member of ESPN’s Peabody Award-winning team for its work on “Spartan Secrets” and was honored with multiple national awards for hosting the ESPN television special, “Being Believed: A Conversation with Sister Survivors.” She has received more than 100 other awards and honors, including 24 regional Emmy Awards, 15 regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting and SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service journalism.

Her investigation of the University of Rochester football team entitled, “I Just Wanted to Survive,” was ranked #2 on Chartbeat’s “100 Most Engaging Stories of the Year,” with more than 17.5 million minutes engaged within a six-month time period.

Before joining ESPN five years ago, Thompson was an investigative reporter at several local television stations in Missouri, Kentucky, Baltimore and her hometown of Washington, D.C. She is a fourth (and maybe a fifth) generation journalist, able to trace her reporting roots on both sides of her family through her mother, grandmother, two grandfathers, and a great-grandfather who covered the real wild west in the late 1800s.