Jemele Hill Net Worth: As of 2017, Jemele Hill net worth is estimated to be around $4 million. An American sport journalist, Jemele Hill embarked career as sport writer in late 1990sand has worked for several newspapers. Her eminence as sport journalist came when she began working for ESPN in 2006.
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Jemele Hill, born on December 21, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan has recently made headline due to her controversial tweet stating Donald Trump a white supremacist. In the pursue of her sport journalist as a career, she initially joined Raleigh News &Observer where she worked as general assignment sports writer. In 1999 she began working for Detroit working for Detroit Free Press as sports writer. While working for Detroit Free press till 2005, her news writing mainly focused on Michigan State football and Basketball. Before joining ESPN as a national columnist in 2006, she has already worked as columnist for Orlando Sentinel for 1 year.
After joining ESPN, she has become the regular presenter on television including Sportscenter and ESPN programs like ESPN First Take, Outside the Line and The Sports Reporters. While working with ESPN, she has covered wide range of sports including NBA, Football. Her work as sport journalist earned her honour of the inaugural McKenzie Cup in 2007. With her popularity as sport journalist, she initiated the podcast His & Hers in 2011. This podcast generally presented the discussion and statistics of sports. The popularity of this show featured her in Smith’s ESPN show Numbers Never Lie in 2013 as co-host. And a year after, Number Never Lie was renamed His & Hers. This show also presents the entertainment topics related to social and relationship issue and pop culture including favourite television shows, music and movies spoof. Out of all television appearance, His & Hers is the undoubtedly the popular one.
Her earning is mostly from above mentioned careers. Her exact figure of salary hasn’t been disclosed yet but it seems like she has been garnering huge amount of monetary value from her work.
Jemele Hill Net Worth: $4 million
Jemele Hill controversies
Her comment over certain topic has made indulgence in controversies on several occasions. Her first controversy came in 2008 during NBA Playoff. That time, her article compared NBA champion Boston Celtics and the Detroit Pistons with Adolf Hitler. This comparison garnered negative response and eventually the portion of editorial was excluded before publishing. This controversy made her suspension for one week and apologized for it.
Jemele Hill Twitter
In recent time, her tweet about Donald Trump over twitter has created the controversies. In her tweet, she addressed Donald Trump as White Supremacist. This outrageous controversial tweet may lead to fire her from ESPN network.