The past two weeks I have written about how the media portrays women around men's sports. This week I am going to dip into who is running the media outlets and what role women have inside them. Many of the sports news outlets today such as ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Bleacher Report all have CEOs who are men. Men also dominate the employes inside of each of those companies. Barstool Sports, however, is a little different. Let me start off by giving you a little background on Barstool. Barstool started out as a betting newspaper by Dave Portnoy. Yes, a man started Barstool but when it was time to grow Barstool Dave went out and found a female CEO. The CEO of Barstool today is Erika Nardini. Erika being the CEO of Barstool puts Barstool apart from the other sports media outlets and often speaks openly about being a CEO of a male dominate platform. Many people have given Barstool a hard time for things that bloggers have said about women but they have a women CEO and they have a handful of women bloggers. All of the women that work for barstool are proud and love working inside a male dominate office. There is something to be said about this because there has been so much in the news how women feel put down and feel they cant hold high positions inside of male dominate companies and here is a company that could easily be a very male dominate company and has a fantastic women CEO.
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