Education

Michael attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory school where he graduated from in 1976, after he took the first step towards becoming a brilliant journalist. As talented as Michael was, four years later, he got his degree in journalism.

Career Experience

Michael Wilbon got his first experience ever in the field of journalism when he started working as an intern in the local newspaper in 1979. After he had finished his internship, he started working as a journalist for the Washington Post. He started working there in 1980. At the time he was working on a column that was focused on college sport, National Football League, Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association. He was later in the 1990. promoted, becoming a full-time writer for the Washington Post. He was working as a regular columnist, covering everything related to sports, including writing about action as well as on culture of sports. The column appeared about 4 times a week until 2010. After he left the Post in 2010, Michael Wilbon became a part of ESPN family on the 7th of December.

In 1982, Michael Wilbon was the only journalist outside Hawaii that was able to cover a historic match between Chaminade and Virginia. As he went to Hawaii, Honolulu in order to cover a college football game, he was present as a witness and a reporter of the match between two top teams. During his career as a journalist, Wilbon has been updating Post’s faithful readers on Summer and Winter Olympic Games. He had covered 10 Olympics at the time.