Jane McManus

Jane McManus is a journalist, author, editor and educator whose work examines sport at the intersection of culture, economics, gender, media and public life. She is the author of The Fast Track: Inside the Surging Business of Women’s Sports (Temple University Press, 2025), which was named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and served as guest editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2024.

McManus spent nearly a decade at ESPN, where she covered the NFL, wrote as a columnist for espnW, hosted two national radio programs, and appeared regularly on SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, and The Sports Reporters. Her journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, Newsday, USA Today, and the New York Daily News, among other outlets.

She is the Editor-in-Chief for Storied Sports, a company focused on storytelling and digital infrastructure around women’s sports and athletes.

Her work increasingly bridges journalism and scholarship. McManus has led academic centers devoted to sports communication at Marist College and Seton Hall University and she teaches at Columbia University in the Strategic Communication program and at the Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport at New York University.

She has lectured and collaborated with scholars in the United States and internationally on the economics of women’s sports, sports media, ethics, and the relationship between sport and society.

McManus earned her Masters at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md.