John A. Walsh
Senior Vice President & Executive Editor
ESPN Internet Group

John A. Walsh serves as senior vice president and executive editor of both ESPN, Inc. and of the ESPN Internet Group.

He has been executive editor of ESPN since December 1990, overseeing all studio and informational programming, and being involved in the creative development of a variety of projects including The ESPYs. He has overseen the launch of ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Radio, and was instrumental in developing the news and information elements of ESPN2.

On January 19, 2000 he added to his responsibilities all creative development and editorial direction for ESPN.com, NFL.com, ABCSports.com and Soccernet. Walsh reports jointly to George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN, Inc. and Dick Glover, executive vice president, Internet media, ABC, Inc.

Walsh served as the managing editor for ESPN from January 1988 to December 1990, and was responsible for the editorial content of all informational programming, including SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship sports news program.

The founding editor of the original Inside Sports magazine (1979-82), Walsh also served as managing editor of U.S. News and World Report (1985-86) and Rolling Stone (1973-74). He held a number of editorial positions at Newsday (1970-73), including sports editor; worked as sports editor of the Columbia Missourian (1967-70), and was an editor at the Washington Post style section (1977-78). He has been the editor of three sports books, including "The Heisman: A Symbol of Excellence," published in 1984. In addition, he has served as a consultant for several publications, including Esquire magazine (1982-83), Vanity Fair magazine (1983-84), the New York Times Sunday sports "Part Two" magazine (1985) and Special Report magazines published by Whittle Communications.

Walsh had been a consultant to ESPN from July 1987 to January 1988. His television experience includes consultancies to CBS Sports' NFL Today program (1986-87 season) and with TVTV on a PBS documentary on the 1976 Super Bowl.

Under Walsh, ESPN's news and information programming has won 25 CableACE Awards and 28 Sports Emmy Awards, including eight for the network's Outside the Lines series which examines sports issues off the playing field.

Walsh earned a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Scranton in 1966 and received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1968. In 1991, he received the Frank J. O'Hara Award from the University of Scranton's National Alumni Association, recognizing his "sustained achievement in the communications field."

A native of Scranton, Pa., Walsh was born January 13, 1945, and is married with two children.