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Jenna Weiss-Berman (born 1983) is a podcast producer and co-founder of Pineapple Street Media. Formerly she was director of audio for BuzzFeed.
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Early life
Weiss-Berman graduated from Oberlin in 2005.
Career
Weiss-Berman has been a producer on Another Round at BuzzFeed, where she was "responsible for the ground-up development of the wildly successful company’s audio arm," as well as The Moth, WNYC's Death, Sex and Money, and The Longform Podcast, where she worked with Pineapple Street co-founder Max Linsky.
Pineapple Street's early clients include The New York Times, Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter, and ad agency Wieden+Kennedy. In the summer of 2016, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign hired Pineapple Street to produce a podcast; Clinton and Linsky co-host the show, called With Her.
Weiss-Berman was a winner of the Gracie Award Grand Award for Podcast in 2016, for her collaboration with Dunham on podcast Woman of the Hour, initially produced at BuzzFeed, now a Pineapple Street production.
Personal life
Weiss-Berman is married to writer Kira Garcia.