ESPN senior writer Tom Junod has written some of the most enduring and widely read longform journalism of the last 30 years.

He joined ESPN in 2016 and has specialized in deeply reported stories on subjects ranging from Muhammad Ali’s funeral to Tom Brady’s desire to play forever. He has been nominated for an Emmy for his work on “The Hero of Goodall Park,” an E60 program on the ancient secrets that were revealed when a car drove on a baseball field in Maine during a Babe Ruth League game in 2018. In a 2022 piece, “Untold,” he and ESPN investigative reporter Paula Lavigne  spent nearly two years uncovering the horrific crimes of Todd Hodne, a  Penn State football player who in the late 1970’s terrorized State College PA, and Long Island, NY, as a serial sexual predator.

Before coming to ESPN, Junod wrote for GQ and Esquire, where he won two National Magazine Awards and was a finalist for the award a record 11 times. For Esquire’s 75th Anniversary, the editors of the magazine selected his 9/11 story “The Falling Man’ as one of the seven top stories in Esquire’s history. In 2019, his story on beloved children’s TV host Fred Rogers, “Can You Say…Hero?,” served as the basis for the movie “A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood,” starring Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys.

His work has been widely anthologized in collections including The Best American Magazine Writing, the Best American Sports Writing, the Best American Political Writing, the Best American Crime Writing, and the Best American Food Writing.

He has also written for The Atlantic.

Junod has won a James Beard Award for an essay about his mother’s cooking, and is working on a memoir about his father for Doubleday. Born and raised on Long Island, he lives in Marietta, GA, with his wife and daughter.

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