Jayme Parker is a veteran sports journalist and broadcaster best known for her long career at NESN (New England Sports Network), where she worked for over 20 years as a SportsDesk anchor and later created and hosted Outside the Fame, a show profiling former athletes. She made history in 2019 as the first woman to serve as a public address announcer for a Boston Bruins game. Originally from Bristol, Connecticut, Parker has degrees from Central Connecticut State University and Emerson College and is well-regarded in the Boston sports community.
We talked about her journey through the sports media world, working in the Bruins locker room, covering wild moments in Boston sports history, and what it’s like being a badass woman in a male-dominated industry. Oh—and a few chirps were definitely thrown around.