Career Highlights:

• 17 years at ESPN including “SportsNation” cohost, NBA editor at ESPN the Magazine, ESPNLA radio host, tennis commentator, Page 2 columnist  
• 10 years at ABC News, 6 years at The Los Angeles Times, 5 years at CNN and the 1st ringside reporter for DAZN
• Emmy award for Entertainment
• “Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson” podcast named among Spotify’s best in 2021, won GLAAD and Signal awards
• Red carpet host  for Marvel Studios
• TED Talk has nearly 2 million views

In 2024, the 118th Congress recognized his work. True story. He also received the Justice and Equality Award from the LA chapter of the NAACP and publicly took Kendrick’s side on CNN before the Pop Out. 

Granderson is creator and host of the first LGBTQ-focused podcast for ABC News and has reported on the topics of  sports, culture and politics since joining the network in 2015. There he covered the inauguration of President Trump, the U.S. Open, and the annual pride march in New York City, the largest in the country.

In 2016, the Emmy Award-winner was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Hall of Fame and his work has received recognition from every major LGBTQ+ organization in the nation.

Over his career, Granderson has worked at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The South Bend Tribune, and The Grand Rapids Press. While at ESPN, he also worked as a columnist and contributor for CNN, where he was part of that network’s coverage of the 2012 general election, the uprising in Ferguson and the funeral of Michael Brown.    

He was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and the Hechinger Institute at Columbia University. 

He also likes being near water.