The Sporting News
Kaitlyn Gappens, SPHR, currently serves as the VP of People at The Sporting News, where responsibilities include aligning people operations with business strategy on a global scale since May 2021. Previously, Kaitlyn was the VP of People at DAZN, overseeing HR for North and South America from January 2015 to February 2021. Earlier experience includes roles as HR Business Partner, HR Manager at Business Ink, and Corporate Recruiter and Human Resources Coordinator at Pionear Recruiting. Kaitlyn began a career in education as a Teacher at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools from August 2010 to October 2012. Kaitlyn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Master of Science in Human Resources Management from Western Carolina University.
The Sporting News
Sporting News (previously The Sporting News, and known colloquially as TSN) is an American-based sports magazine. It was established in 1886, and it became the dominant American publication covering baseball — so much so that it acquired the nickname "The Bible of Baseball". Along with its affiliated radio network, Sporting News Radio,it is currently owned by Charlotte, North Carolina-based American City Business Journals, a subsidiary of Advance Publications.SN currently covers seven main sports — Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), NASCAR, and NCAA men's basketball and football — with occasional coverage of other sports.Following 122 years of existence as a weekly publication, the magazine switched to a bi-weekly publishing schedule in 2008. Earlier that year, it launched a daily online newspaper, Sporting News Today.