Editing Michael Wilbon (section)

=== Newspapers ===
Wilbon began working for ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1980 after summer internships at the newspaper in 1979 and 1980.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Magazine/September-October-2014/Bethesda-Magazine-Interview/|title=Michael Wilbon: sports writer turned TV star|last=Elfin|first=David|date=September–October 2014|work=Bethesda Magazine|access-date=2017-07-07|language=en}}</ref><ref name="PTI on ESPN">{{cite web|title=Pardon the Interruption with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=1365321&type=page2Story|access-date=October 16, 2007|work=[[ESPN.com]]}}</ref> He covered college sports, [[Major League Baseball]], the [[National Football League]] and the [[National Basketball Association]] before being promoted to full-time columnist in 1990.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="PTI on ESPN" /> His column in the ''Post'', which dealt as much with the culture of sports as the action on the court or field, appeared up to four times a week until he left to work full-time for ESPN on December 7, 2010.<ref name="washingtonpost.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/06/AR2010120606607_pf.html|title=For Michael Wilbon, a fond farewell to The Post|date=December 7, 2010|newspaper=Washington Post|first=Michael|last=Wilbon}}</ref>

In his career, Wilbon  covered ten Summer and Winter [[Olympic Games]] for ''The Washington Post'', every [[Super Bowl]] since 1987, nearly every [[Final Four]] since 1982 and each year's [[NBA Finals]] since {{nbafy|1987}}. Notably, he was also the only reporter based outside of [[Hawaii]] to cover the [[1982 Virginia vs. Chaminade men's basketball game|historic basketball upset]] of top-ranked [[1982–83 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team|Virginia]] by then-[[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics|NAIA]] member [[Chaminade Silverswords men's basketball|Chaminade]] in 1982 (he was in [[Honolulu]] to cover [[1982 Aloha Bowl|a college football bowl game]]).<ref name="resonates">{{cite news|last=Bolch|first=Ben|title=Improbable basketball victory by small college in Hawaii still resonates|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 19, 2011|url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2011-nov-19-la-sp-1120-college-basketball-upsets-20111120-story.html|access-date=December 17, 2013}}</ref>

During his time at the ''Post'', Wilbon earned the reputation as one of "the best deadline writer[s] in American newspapers."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Mansfield |first=Stephanie |date=5 August 2002 |title=Revenge of the Words: The yak attacks of Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon on ESPN's 'Pardon the Interruption' prove that friends make the best arguments |url=https://www.si.com/vault/2002/08/05/327407/revenge-of-the-words-the-yak-attacks-of-tony-kornheiser-and-michael-wilbon-on-espns-pardon-the-interruption-prove-that-friends-make-the-best-arguments |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818090910/https://www.si.com/vault/2002/08/05/327407/revenge-of-the-words-the-yak-attacks-of-tony-kornheiser-and-michael-wilbon-on-espns-pardon-the-interruption-prove-that-friends-make-the-best-arguments |archive-date=August 18, 2017 |access-date=2017-07-07 |magazine=Sports Illustrated}}</ref> In 2001, Wilbon was named the top sports columnist by the [[Society of Professional Journalists]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alumni.northwestern.edu/cwoc/cwoc_01_06.html|title=Pardon the Interruption!: A Talk with Michael Wilbon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901094713/http://www.alumni.northwestern.edu/cwoc/cwoc_01_06.html|access-date=October 16, 2007|archive-date=September 1, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In recent years,{{when|date=May 2024}} Wilbon has become more known{{by whom|date=May 2024}} as an ESPN personality than as a reporter.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} On December 7, 2010, he wrote his last column for  ''The Washington Post'' and officially dedicated full-time to work for ESPN and ABC.<ref name="washingtonpost.com" />