Josina Anderson
Josina Anderson
Josina Anderson is a sports reporter with ESPN.
[1]Born in Washington D.C. to Yasmin and Lloyd Anderson, she graduated from UNC.
She worked in broadcast news and sports reporting in Coos Bay, D.C., and Denver.
She is a National NFL Insider and reporter for ESPN appearing on NFL Live, NFL Insiders, Sunday NFL Countdown and SportsCenter.
[0]She does feature reporting, game-day reporting for Countdown, and in-studio appearances on NFL Insiders.
Anderson joined ESPN as a Chicago-based reporter in August 2011 and was named the company’s first female National NFL Insider in August 2015.
She interviews Vontaze Burfict when the Bengals linebacker discussed his controversial hit – and ensuing suspension – on Antonio Brown in the 2016 NFL Playoffs [0]
Prior to ESPN, Anderson was a sports weekend co-anchor, eporterand producer for FOX 31 in Denver from August 2005.
She produced the nightly sportscasts and covered all the city’s local professional teams.
She also served as reporter for Showtime’s award-winning Inside the NFL program from Sept. 2010 through Aug. 2011.
She broke the story of a rash of 6-10 positive tests by NFL players across four teams, a violation the NFL’s steroids policy that came to be known as the StarCaps case (Oct. 2008); Ricky Williams and Travis Henry testing positive for marijuana (July 2008); and Charles Woodson and the Packers reaching an agreement on a contract extension (Sept. 2010).
In 2009, Anderson received a Heartland Emmy award for “A Premonition to Addis Ababa,” which chronicled Colorado Crush quarterback John Dutton’s voyage to Ethiopia to adopt an 11-year-old boy.
Anderson began her television career in 2000 as a sports anchor and reporter at the CBS affiliate in Coos Bay, Oregon.
A year later, she moved onto Washington, D.C., where she worked on Redskins Magazine, Sideline Report and Roundball Report covering professional teams (Redskins, Wizards and Mystics) and Georgetown and University of Maryland basketball teams.
Anderson also hosted her own weekly sports radio segment on WKYS 93.9 called “ScoopCenter.”
Anderson has a degree in exercise and sports science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she competed in the 200- and 400-meter races as a track and field student-athlete.
She is considered a babe.