Scoop Jackson has written for basketball and hip hop magazines for at least 25 years, executive editing SLAM and XXL magazines. He is currently a producer and contributor at ESPN. Before joining ESPN, Jackson worked as a copy writer and author for Nike, where he helped create the “LeBron James: Chambers of Fear” ad campaign.

Scoop is the recipient of several awards for his work, including the Peter Lisagor Award for Sports Journalism (1999) and the National Rainbow Coalition Sports Journalist of the Year award (2001). In 2017 he won the New York International Television & Film gold medal award for Sports Coverage for his ESPN feature on the anticipation of the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.