Jasmine Ellis is a Showrunner & Supervising Producer experienced in producing and developing news, sports and talk shows for ESPN, CNN+ and ABC, NBC & CBS O & O's.
She most recently developed Speak.Easy with Cari Champion & Jemele Hill, a CNN+ talk show featuring field pieces & celebrity interviews. Jasmine also developed and launched SC6 with Michael Smith and Jemele Hill, an unprecedented revamp of ESPN's SportsCenter. She followed that project with the launch of High Noon, a sports talk show featuring Bomani Jones & Pablo Torre. Jasmine is also the co-founder of UnSeen Productions, a talent development program for underrepresented minority journalists interested in appearing on sports talk shows.
Jasmine began her journalism career in local TV News as a news writer at NBC7 San Diego. She went on to produce the 5 p.m. news at CBS Baltimore and WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.
Jasmine is a proud graduate of USC's Annenberg School where she studied Broadcast Journalism.