Report: Jemele Hill Joining ESPN Website

Jemele Hill

Jemele Hill, who earned a reported salary of $1 million as a host of ESPN’s flagship show “SportsCenter,” is said to be joining The Undefeated, an ESPN website based in the Washington, D.C., area that covers the intersection of sports and race.

According to Fox Business, Mmany of her new co-workers at The Undefeated are former journalists at The Washington Post, including editor-in-chief Kevin Merida, deputy editor Steve Reiss and senior writer Mike Wise. Assuming that Hill holds on to her ESPN salary, she will be earning a lot more than her new colleagues are used to making. A typical Washington Post reporter makes about $85,000 per year, according to a Glassdoor survey of nine salaries.

In addition to her salary of $1 million, she has a net worth of $4 million, according to Salary and Networth. She is in the first year of a four-year deal, the Hollywood Reporter said Friday.

Several ESPN insiders told Fox News that the move was Hill’s choice, but sports talk radio host Clay Travis tweeted that she was Opens a New Window.  “booted” due to “collapsing ratings.”