Jenna Weiss-Berman

Jenna Weiss-Berman (born 1983) is a podcast producer and co-founder of Pineapple Street Media.[1] Formerly she was director of audio for BuzzFeed.[2]

Early life

Weiss-Berman is a native of Massachusetts and graduated from Oberlin College in 2005.

Career

Weiss-Berman has been a producer on Another Round at BuzzFeed,[3] where she was "responsible for the ground-up development of the wildly successful company’s audio arm,"[4] as well as The Moth, WNYC's Death, Sex and Money, and The Longform Podcast,[5] where she worked with Pineapple Street co-founder Max Linsky.[6]

Pineapple Street's early clients include The New York Times,[7][8] Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter, and ad agency Wieden+Kennedy.[9] In the summer of 2016, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign hired Pineapple Street to produce a podcast;[10] Clinton and Linsky co-host the show, called With Her.[11]

Weiss-Berman was a winner of the Gracie Award Grand Award for Podcast in 2016,[12] for her collaboration with Dunham on podcast Woman of the Hour, initially produced at BuzzFeed, now a Pineapple Street production.[13]

Pineapple Street was sold to Entercom in 2019.[14]

Personal life

Weiss-Berman is married to writer Kira Garcia.[15]

gollark: You just need infinite memory and stuff.
gollark: Finite set of programs doesn't mean non-TC, does it?
gollark: Just enumerate all possible strings in order, silly.
gollark: Or "possibly TC but you can't know unless you throw ridiculously insane amounts of computing power at it".
gollark: Hmm, perhaps if you make it use the most recent likely-true-but-hard-to-prove maths problem somehow...

References
  1. Dale, Brady (18 May 2016). "Table Stakes for Podcasts Rising: Edit Shows or Don't Bother". New York Observer. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  2. Benton, Joshua (August 26, 2015). "Press Publish 14: Jenna Weiss-Berman on BuzzFeed's podcast strategy and moves into audio news". Neiman Lab. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  3. Dale, Brady (6 December 2015). "Why Buzzfeed and the Financial Times Chose Acast to Host Their Podcasts". New York Observer. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  4. Iversen, Kristin (January 25, 2016). "People in Your Neighborhood: Jenna Weiss-Berman". Brooklyn Magazine. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  5. Rose, Leah (January 12, 2016). "EARFUL: 'Another Round' Producer On Why Diversity in Workplace is Essential". KQED Arts. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  6. Quah, Nicholas (July 5, 2016). "Hot Pod: Will any of the companies trying to build the YouTube of podcasting succeed?". Neiman Lab. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  7. P. Claire, Dodson (9 September 2016). "Jenna Weiss-Berman: "I'm Proud Of Making Stuff Not Just For White Guys"". Fast Company. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  8. Doctor, Ken (September 6, 2016). "The New York Times gets serious about podcasting". Politico. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  9. Perlberg, Steven (23 May 2016). "Podcasts Experiment With Paid Subscriptions". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  10. Grinapol, Corinne (August 12, 2016). "Hillary Clinton Has a Podcast". FishbowlDC. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  11. Carpentier, Megan (12 August 2016). "Clinton becomes first presidential candidate to launch campaign podcast". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  12. Cablefax Staff (25 May 2016). "PHOTOS: Gracie Awards 2016". Cablefax. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  13. Quah, Nicholas (May 31, 2016). "Hot Pod: A podcast ranking that misses a lot, new listenership data, and funny Australians". Neiman Lab. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  14. Spangler, Todd; Spangler, Todd (2019-08-07). "Entercom Buys Podcast Companies Cadence13, Pineapple Street Media". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  15. Cheung, Alexis (7 April 2016). "Brides Say Yes to the Pants". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
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