Journalist Jemele Hill is leaving ESPN’s SportsCenter, The Hollywood Reporter wrote on Friday, citing unnamed sources. Hill, the co-host of SportsCenter’s 6 p.m. show titled “The Six,” has been at the center of an onslaught of recent criticism of the Walt Disney Co.-owned ESPN and its perceived liberal bias. In October ESPN suspended Hill for a second violation of the company’s social media guidelines, which they later updated. She suggested on Twitter that fans boycott advertisers of the National Football League and before that she called President Donald Trump a white supremacist. Hill’s last day on SportsCenter will be Feb. 2, just two days before the Super Bowl, and co-host Michael Smith will host the show on his own after that. Hill will still work at ESPN as a writer for The Undefeated, sources told The Hollywood Reporter. She still has three years left on her four-year contract with ESPN. Shares of Disney have gained roughly 3% in the last 12 months, while the S&P 500 index is up more than 24% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up more than 31%.
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