Jenna Weiss-Berman (born 1983) is a podcast producer and co-founder of

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. Formerly she was director of audio for

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Early life

Weiss-Berman is a native of Massachusetts and graduated from

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in 2005.

Career

BuzzFeed

After almost a decade working in public radio on such shows as ''

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'',

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's '' Death, Sex and Money'', and ''The Longform Podcast'', Weiss-Berman started the podcast department at BuzzFeed where she was "responsible for the ground-up development of the wildly successful company’s audio arm," creating shows like ''Another Round'' and ''Women of the Hour with

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''. While there she was responsible for every aspect of the podcast department from legal contracts, finding sponsorships and the content itself as a producer.

Pineapple Street Media

In 2016, she left BuzzFeed to launch

, a Brooklyn-based full-service podcast production company, with her friend, Longform co-founder, Max Linsky. Weiss-Berman has said that the goal was to be able to make podcasts for non-audio companies and the decision to launch Pineapple Street came after both her and Linksy turning down many such requests. Pineapple Street's early clients included ''

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'',

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and ad agency

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. In the summer of 2016,

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hired Pineapple Street to produce a podcast (the first ever for a presidential candidate). Clinton and Linsky co-hosted the show, called ''With Her''. Pineapple Street Media has partnered with brands like

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, Mastercard and

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, and produced critically-acclaimed original series like ''

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'', ''Running From COPS'', '' The Clearing'', '' The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow'', ''Wind of Change'', ''Back Issue'' and '' Welcome to Your Fantasy''. In 2017, she was named one of ''

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''’s 100 Most Creative People in Business. Pineapple Street was sold to

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in 2019.

Other

Weiss-Berman currently sits on the advisory board of

Awards

Weiss-Berman was a winner of the

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Grand Award for Podcast in 2016, for her collaboration with Lena Dunham on podcast ''Woman of the Hour'', initially produced at BuzzFeed, now a Pineapple Street production. In 2020, Pineapple Street Media led all podcast companies with two

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nominations for ''The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow'' and ''Running From COPS''.

Personal life

Weiss-Berman is married to writer Kira Garcia.

References

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