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Jun 20, 2021 · Kat O’Brien is a former journalist and baseball writer for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Newsday. I was 22 years old and working as a sports reporter when I was raped by a major-league ...
- 'It Was Traumatic and Scary'
- 'It Felt Like Nothing Had Gotten Better'
- 'I Felt Humiliated and Ashamed'
- 'Emotionally Exhausting'
- It's Not Their Fault
O'Brien was a 22-year-old sports reporter in 2002, a recent Notre Dame graduate who had been a sports writer for the university's newspaper. She was good at her job, really good. She landed a position with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas. Besides covering high school sports, she took on other assignments, the kind a young reporter takes on to...
Far from the world of sports journalism, now working for Mastercard, O'Brien opened up in a New York Times piecein June. No fear of being marked, losing her job or not being hired in sports because she is "that woman," she decided to tell her story. O'Brien is not naming the player she said raped her. "I choose not to name him because it would only...
O'Brien grew up in Davenport, Iowa, in a Catholic family and went to Catholic grade school. She was a star student all through high school. With her scores on the SAT and ACT, O'Brien had a ticket to the nation's top schools. She chose Notre Dame. She had played sports growing up. But at Notre Dame she focused on academics, going to the gym, runnin...
After leaving the Star-Telegram in 2007, O'Brien moved to New York and covered the Yankees for Newsday. In 2009, she earned her MBA. She stayed in sports for a couple of years, working for ESPN on the business side of things. Then she got a job with Samsung, then Mastercard. Having her story published in the Times, doing follow-up interviews, telli...
O'Brien knows she can't prevent individual acts of violence. If someone wants to rape another person, her story isn't going to stop that, she said. "What I hope I could have an impact on is changing the overall environment, the way people act," she said. The sexual assault on O'Brien in a hotel room, while the worst she faced, wasn't the only sexis...
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Jun 20, 2021 · Kat O’Brien was 22 and interviewing the unnamed player for a story about foreign-born sluggers adapting to US culture when he “moved suddenly to kiss me,” she wrote in a first-person column...
Jun 21, 2021 · June 21, 2021. A former sportswriter claims she was raped by a Major League Baseball player 18 years ago but never reported the attack because “I knew that if I told anyone what happened...
Jun 21, 2021 · Mark Cunningham/Getty Images. In what she described as an “achingly personal piece,” former sports journalist Kat O’Brien said in an essay published over the weekend that she had been raped at...
Jun 21, 2021 · Kat O’Brien wrote in an essay published Sunday in The New York Times that she was attacked as she talked to the player in his hotel room some two decades ago when she was 22 years old, writing about sports for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Jun 20, 2021 · In a heartbreaking essay in The New York Times, journalist Kat O’Brien—who spent years covering baseball, including the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees—revealed for the first time that...
