Longtime NFL Reporter Announces Retirement
David Newton is retiring after 45 years in sports journalism, including two decades covering the Carolina Panthers and NFL for ESPN.
David Newton
Carolina Panthers beat writer David Newton retiring from ESPN
David Newton never made it to law school. The ESPN Panthers beat reporter announced Thursday that he is retiring after 20 years with the network and 45 years in the business, saying he will wake up from hip replacement surgery ready to start a new chapter. The plan coming out of Wofford College in 1981…