The Sporting News
Shaun Koiner serves as the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Sporting News Holdings and its flagship property, The Sporting News, since December 2020. Koiner has extensive experience in the sports media industry, having previously held leadership roles such as Chief Operations Officer and CEO, Americas at Sporting News Holdings, and EVP of Publishing & Editorial Products at DAZN Group. Koiner began career at Sports Illustrated, progressing through various marketing and strategic roles before transitioning to Perform Media, where oversight of product development and content strategy was a focus. Koiner holds a B.S.B.A. in Finance, Marketing, Philosophy, and Education from Washington University in St. Louis and completed executive education at Harvard Business School in 2021, specializing in the business of entertainment, media, and sports.
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.