Jon Wertheim

L. Jonathan Wertheim (born 1970 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American sports journalist and author. He is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated magazine and has been part of the full-time SI writing staff since 1997 He has covered tennis, mixed martial arts, sports business and social issues, and enterprise journalism.

In 2017, he became a 60 Minutes correspondent on CBS and has covered a wide range of topics including Denmark's increasing wealth due to new generation weight-loss drugs, George Clooney's Broadway role as pioneering journalist Edward R. Murrow, Donald Trump's fight to buy Greenland and extended interviews with sports stars Caitlin Clark and Novak Djokovic.

In October, 2020, Sports Illustrated published an investigative report by Wertheim about the sex abuse of wrestlers in the college athletic program at Ohio State and the university's decades-long cover-up ("Why Aren't More People Talking About the Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal?"). He was Executive Producer and on-camera reporter for Surviving Ohio State, a documentary based on this article. It premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June, 2025 and was first aired on HBO on June 17, 2025.

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