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Volume 23 No. 39
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One bad headline cost him his job at ESPN. The priesthood brought healing.

August 12, 2019
Anthony Federico was fired from ESPN in 2012 for writing a headline. You probably remember the story. A young ESPN employee, he wrote a headline for the company’s mobile app that many viewed as a racial slur directed at NBA player Jeremy Lin . Federico&rsqu...
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