OutKick hires former Seattle Times columnist who quit after axed column about transgender athletes
Matt Calkins will write multiple columns each week after leaving The Seattle Times when it shelved his piece on transgender athletes.
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OutKick Hires Columnist Who Quit Seattle Paper Over Spiked Sophie Cunningham Article
(Photos Via: KOMO News on YouTube and @Sophie_Cham on Instagram) It took writer Matt Calkins less than a month to find another gig, after he quit The Seattle Times over a spiked article defending WNBA star Sophie Cunningham against claims of “transphobic” behavior. Outkick on Wednesday announced it signed Culkin to a deal making him its new sports and culture columnist, right on the heels of his much-covered exit from his old paper. “While my de…
OutKick hires former Seattle Times columnist who quit after axed column about transgender athletes
Credit: Seattle TimesThe former Seattle Times sports columnist who left the paper after it shelved a column on transgender athletes has found a new home. Matt Calkins, who resigned from the Seattle Times last month after 11 years at the publication, has been hired by the Fox News-operated OutKick, according to a report by Ben Mullin in The New York Times. Calkins went public with the reasoning behind his departure last month, explaining the deci…
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