Kat O'Brien was in the early stages of her sports journalism career when she was raped by a Major League Baseball player whom she had arranged to interview for a baseball feature for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The rape occurred in a Texas hotel room in 2002, but O'Brien kept the assault secret for almost 20 years, finally making public her story in a New York Times essay published in June of 2021. In the latest "Stories with Street CRed" podcast, O'Brien discusses the global response to her NYT piece, the evolution of sports media since she was part of that field, and changes that can be implemented to make the journalism workplace a safer one going forward.
