Roxanna Scott, a veteran of more than two decades in the news industry, joined ESPN in the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Editor in Chief in January of 2026.

Scott leads ESPN’s Digital Editorial, Investigative & Enterprise Journalism and News Desk teams, responsible for shaping and executing ESPN’s editorial strategy across platforms, driving impactful journalism and ensuring ESPN maintains its leadership in sports storytelling, breaking news and accountability reporting.

Scott led the sports department at USA Today from 2020 until July of 2025, serving as managing editor, executive editor and vice president. She spent 18 years at USA Today, assigning reporters and collaborating with teams across the newsroom in news, politics, visuals and entertainment. While there, she led coverage of nine Olympics and has covered 11 overall.

Prior to joining USA Today, she worked at The Dallas Morning News as a sports copy editor, night editor and deputy sports editor. She joined the Morning News as an intern and was hired full time after graduating from the University of Iowa, where she was a sports reporter and editor at The Daily Iowan.

A native of Davenport, Iowa, Scott began working as a sports journalist at the age of 16 at her hometown newspaper, the Quad City Times, where she was hired as a sports part-timer to compile box scores on deadline. Most recently, she was a managing editor for The Athletic.

A former president of the Association for Women in Sports Media, Scott serves on the professional advisory board for the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2023. She is also a board member of the Associated Press Sports Editors Foundation and The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland.

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