Sports broadcaster Julie Stewart-Binks, 39, laid off just weeks after revealing skin cancer diagnosis: ‘Livelihood ripped away’
Sports reporter Julie Stewart-Binks has been laid off by SNY – just weeks after revealing her cancer diagnosis.
Cruelly, the 39-year-old only found out that her livelihood had been ‘ripped away’ when her former agent read about it in the New York Times.
Last month, Stewart-Binks explained that she had been off the air after being diagnosed with skin cancer. The veteran broadcaster, who has made stops at ESPN, Barstool Sports and Fox Sports, revealed that she needed to go under the knife to ‘remove squamous cell carcinoma’ in her nose.
‘I thought it was a pimple that wouldn’t go away, turns out it was cancer,’ she said. Barely a month on, however, Stewart-Binks confirmed that she had lost her job.
‘I was laid off on Friday,’ she said in a social media video. ‘To have gone through a very public skin cancer removal to then be informed by a New York Times article that you didn’t have a job was not on the bingo card for this year.’
She added: ‘It turns out, part of the business is wondering how many American holidays you have to work to be invited to the holiday party until you get a message from your former agent that says FYI and it’s a link to a New York Times article where it says you don’t have a job anymore.’
Julie Stewart-Binks has been laid off by SNY – just weeks after revealing her cancer diagnosis
She learned her livelihood had been ‘ripped away’ when her ex-agent read about it in the NYT
Stewart-Binks recently explained that she had been off air after being diagnosed with cancer
Stewart-Binks explained that this is not the first time she has been laid off during her career. ‘[But] even when you know you’re going to get back up it doesn’t mean your ego isn’t bruised,’ she admitted.
‘It’s just part of the business… [but] in all honesty, it really sucks for a lot of people and in sports broadcasting we spend most of our time talking about this – athletes being cut, waived, released.’
The broadcaster, who spent seven years as a host, reporter and ‘opinionist’ for SNY, continued: ‘Most importantly your job and your workplace are not your identity. Don’t give them the power over who you are… it’s just another day in my life.’
In January 2025, Stewart-Binks filed a lawsuit against Fox Sports and former executive Charlie Dixon, alleging Dixon pushed her against a wall and forcibly kissed her after a work meeting in 2016.
Dixon, who was subsequently fired from the network after being placed on administrative leave for a separate sexual battery complaint, denied any ‘sexual or offensive contact’ with Stewart-Binks.
In July 2025, she asked to dismiss the suit and issued a statement saying the ‘matter has been resolved.’
