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NFL media is letting veteran reporter Jim Trotter walk after publicly clashing with commissioner Roger Goodell on minority hiring at the league's network and website.
'Some personal news,' Trotter tweeted Monday. 'This will be my final week with the NFL Media Group.
'I was informed over the weekend that my contract is not being renewed. I thank NFL Network and NFL.com for the lessons learned and affirmed over the last five years.'
An NFL media spokesman did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment. The New York Post previously reported about looming cuts at NFL Media, which one source said was due to 'this period of broader economic uncertainty.' A source familiar with the league's thinking echoed a similar explanation to DailyMail.com on Tuesday.
Trotter publicly confronted Goodell at his annual Super Bowl press conference in each of the last two years, questioning the Commissioner on why there haven't been more African Americans hired by NFL media at the senior level and in the newsroom.
NFL media is letting Jim Trotter walk after publicly clashing with commissioner Roger Goodell
Goodell accused of Trotter of having misleading information during one exchange
'You and other league officials have said that the league's commitment to diversity, equity inclusion extends beyond the sidelines and front offices and is applied to all aspects of the company,' Trotter said at Goodell's February press conference.
'I've worked at NFL Media for five years, during those five years we have never had a black person in senior management in our newsroom,' continued Trotter. 'That's a problem because we cover a league, that according to league data, the player population is 60-70 percent black, which means that there's no one who looks like these players at the table when decisions
