One of the most prestigious sportswriters in America, Ramona Shelburne is recently working as a National Basketball Association insider and sportswriter for ESPN. She has provided excellent coverage of several National Basketball Association games on SportsCenter, ESPN radio, website, and magazine. She has also been featured on other ESPN shows which include NBA Tonight, SportsNation and others.
As a professional sportswriter, Shelburne has contributed to her alma mater journal, Stanford Daily where she actually kicked off her sportswriting career. Some of her writings have gained publications on widely known journals.
In addition to being a sportswriter, the ESPN Journalist is also known as a radio personality, having served as the co-host of the National Radio show titled, The Beadle and Shelburne. More so, she has been recognized with multiple awards by the Pro Basketball Writers Associate as a result of her remarkable works as a sports journalist. Below are more facts about the early life, career, earnings and family life of the sportswriter.
Biography
On the 19th of July 1979, Ramona Shelburne was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. She was raised by her parents, Janette Shelburne and her husband in the West Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her mother was a fellow of Writers Guild of America and worked as an accomplished scriptwriter. Shelburne’s mother came to be known for penning down several children’s animated TV shows.
The adept scriptwriter completed her basic education from El Camino Real High School situated in Woodland Hills and is a graduate of Stanford University where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in America Studies and further achieved a Master’s degree in Communications. While at the university, Ramona Shelburne was a notable softball player who played along with her teammates in the 1998 NCAA tournament. They also participated in the Women’s College World Series that took place in 2001.
Having been influenced by her mother’s writing abilities, the ESPN reporter put her journalism career to a start in 1997, when she contributed a write-up on men’s golf tournament to Standford University journal known as Stanford Daily during her first year in the university. She later followed it up by landing a journalistic gig at the Los Angeles Daily News immediately after her graduation from the university. There, she served as a columnist for a period of seven years before leaving in 2009 to join the ESPN Network.
Shelburne also continued with her work as a columnist at ESPN Los Angeles. Currently serving as a sportswriter for the network, the California-born journalist makes brilliant coverage of National Basketball Association games for ESPN’s SportsCenter, ESPN radio, magazine, and website. In addition, she also features on the Network’s several other shows including The Jump, SportsNation, Pardon the Interruption, among others.
As a professional sports journalist who is well-known as one of the most respectable sportswriters, Ramona Shelburne’s writings have gained publications on journals like Stanford Magazine and Sports Illustrated for Women.
Furthermore, the adept sportscaster has also garnered wide attention as a radio personality having co-hosted the National Radio show titled, The Beadle and Shelburne in 2016. Ramona Shelburne has further gone ahead to engage her fans with special emphasis on different sports events on her Twitter account where she has over 250,000 followers.
The brilliant sports reporter has achieved a remarkable feat in her career as she has been honored with multiple awards by Pro Basketball Writers Associate, following her outstanding works as a columnist and sportscaster.
Salary of The ESPN Journalist
Through her works as a sportswriter, reporter, and columnist, the award-winning sports journalist has acquired a fortune from her thriving career in journalism. The sportswriter is reportedly earning an average salary of about $52,099 annually along with her salary as an ESPN journalist which is speculated to be around $85,000 per annum, Ramona Shelburne is said to be worth around $4 million.
Ramona Shelburne’s Family – Her Husband
The brilliant ESPN reporter is a married woman and she is married to Nevin Barich, who is her former colleague at Los Angeles Daily News. The couple sealed their love with a nuptial bond on 23rd August 2009. They have gone on to welcome their first child, a son named Daniel Charlie Barich in 2018. The two love birds are still together till date and are happily married.