NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York
Post announced today a new multi-platform partnership with
Jalen Rose, media personality,
New York Times best-selling author,
philanthropist, NBA icon, and founder of the Jalen Rose Leadership
Academy. The multi-platform content program, The Renaissance Man,
will launch this fall and feature a weekly column, as well as a
weekly video and podcast series hosted by Rose.
The Renaissance Man will showcase Rose's many talents, unique
perspective and interests including sports, entertainment, fashion,
education, entrepreneurship, technology, food, healthy living,
travel, and more. Rose will share anecdotes and lessons learned
throughout his NBA career and beyond, and will relate them to
current events and themes. Bringing his varied interests to life,
he will speak with celebrities, athletes, designers, business
leaders, and more for the weekly series.
"Jalen is an extraordinary talent and we're very excited to have
him join our New York Post family," said Sean Giancola, CEO and Publisher of The New
York Post. "As an industry veteran and highly regarded
influencer, Jalen will bring his experience and perspective on a
wide variety of topics to our audience of over 100 million engaged
sports, entertainment and style enthusiasts. We are looking forward
to delivering entertaining and thoughtful content with his credible
and unique voice, and creating engaging integrated opportunities
for our advertising partners."
"The New York Post is an institution," said Jalen Rose. "The Renaissance Man is about
celebrating culture, those who create it and advance it, and I am
honored to be given this platform to share my insights and speak
with people I admire about topics that matter in today's world. I
appreciate the team at the Post for showing me love, believing in
this concept and helping bring it to life."
The Renaissance Man multi-platform content program will launch
weekly this fall. The column will be available in print and
digitally. The video content will live digitally, embedded
into Renaissance Man articles and featured on individual
landing pages. Find New York Post Podcasts on Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or any listening platform; and visit
NYPost.com/Podcasts.
About The New York Post
Founded by Alexander Hamilton in
1801, the New York Post is the oldest continuously-published daily
newspaper in the United States and
one of the nation's premier digital destinations for news, sports
and entertainment. The New York Post's fabled Page Six gossip column is a world leader in
breaking celebrity news and has evolved into its own iconic and
powerful brand. The Post Digital Network is comprised of the
flagship NYPost.com, PageSix.com, including Page Six Style, and Decider.com, covering
streaming television and movies. The New York Post and the New York
Post Digital Network are owned by News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA;
ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
About Jalen Rose
Jalen Rose is a media
personality, author, philanthropist, and NBA icon. In college, he
was part of the legendary "Fab Five" of the Michigan Wolverines
men's basketball team. Rose played in the NBA for thirteen seasons,
most notably on the Indiana Pacers team that made three consecutive
Eastern Conference finals, including the 2000 NBA Finals. Rose has
worked as an analyst for ESPN since 2007. Currently, he co-hosts
"Jalen and Jacoby" each weekday afternoon at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN, and helped launch and
contributes to "Get Up," ESPN's flagship morning show, and is the
lead studio analyst for "NBA Countdown," the NBA's marquee
platform. In 2011, he founded the Jalen Rose Leadership
Academy in his hometown of Detroit, an open-enrollment, tuition-free,
public charter high school serving over 400 students. Rose is a
New York Times best-selling author with
the release of his first book, "Got to Give the People What They
Want," in 2015. He was inducted into Michigan Basketball Hall
of Fame in 2017.
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