LAUREN A. JONES is a sports reporter who shoots video, writes, edits, hosts and produces original content for broadcast television, digital, and social media.

 

Lauren is currently covering the Los Angeles Lakers as a beat reporter for the L.A. Sentinel Newspaper, the largest African-American weekly newspaper in the country. She is also a podcast producer and project manager at UNINTERRUPTED for shows like Nick Young's Certified Buckets podcast. Her previous reporting includes coverage ofthe Clippers, Rams, Chargers, USC, and UCLA Men and Women's Basketball teams.

 

She earned her B.A. from the University of Southern California in 2014 where she studied broadcast and digital journalism with an emphasis in Sports Media Studies. 

 

Her previous stops include Snapchat, ESPN LA, and Fox Sports. In 2012, she began the Drew League's digital coverage which now features a formal internship program. Her work has appeared on ESPN, NBA, Bleacher Report, NBC Sports, Yahoo Sports, NY Post, the L.A. Times among other media outlets.