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Zach Lowe's Dismissal Highlights ESPN's Shifting Strategy

Everyone says they don't want rage-bait-style content. ESPN's data tells them they do.

Joe Pompliano
Sep 30, 2024
∙ Paid
Photo: Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images

ESPN completed its latest round of layoffs last week, firing popular NBA writer Zach Lowe. Zach is not only one of the country’s most popular basketball writers but he is sort of a unicorn, one of the few people in sports media who are truly good at writing, podcasting, TV hits, analyzing games, and communicat…

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