Michael Protos

Background

About Michael Protos

As a 20-year veteran of the media industry with 15+ years of management experience, I strive to inspire my team to produce creative, accurate and precise content that informs, entertains and delights our audience - no matter how they find the content. ESPN's Research team delivers the best storytelling based on stats, analytics and historical information in the industry. We have expertise across sports, media platforms and cultural experiences. I'm proud to help provide strategic direction and run live production for this team. About 20 of our 75 researchers report to me or one of the managers reporting to me. I work with leaders from event production, SportsCenter and studio programming, digital and social media, sales and programming, among others, to ensure Research supports the evolving needs of multiple platforms. In addition, I enjoy building relationships with others in the industry in search of storytelling tools that allow us to provide unparalleled depth of storytelling.