Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, who served as editor-in-chief of

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, a division of

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. In September 2018, he left Slate to co-found

Pushkin Industries Pushkin Industries is an American publisher of podcasts and audiobooks. It was co-founded in 2018 by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg. As of 2021, it hosts over 25 podcasts. History The company was co-founded in 2018 by Malcolm Gladwell and Jac ...

, an audio content company, with

Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 1996. He has published seven books: '' The Tipping Point: How Little T ...

. Weisberg was also a ''

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'' columnist. He served as the editor of ''

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'' magazine for six years before stepping down in June 2008. He is the son of

Lois Weisberg Lois Weisberg (May 6, 1925 – January 13, 2016) was the first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago, from 1989 until January 2011. She was profiled by writer Malcolm Gladwell in a 1999 ''New Yorker'' essay, "Six Degrees of Lois ...

, a Chicago social activist and municipal commissioner.

Background

Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a Chicago lawyer and judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist

Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel ''Invisible Man'', which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote ''Shadow and Act'' (1964), a collecti ...

. His mother is

. His brother is former

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officer and television writer and producer

Joe Weisberg Joseph Weisberg is an American television writer, producer, novelist, and school teacher. Weisberg is best known as the creator and showrunner of the FX TV series ''The Americans''. Career A 1987 graduate of Yale University, Weisberg became a C ...

. Weisberg graduated from

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in 1986, where he worked for the ''

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''. When a junior, he was offered membership in

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by then lieutenant governor of Massachusetts

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. But he declined the offer, citing the club's exclusion of women. Weisberg was persuaded by ''The Washington Posts Robert G. Kaiser to join Elihu Society. After Yale he attended

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on a

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Career

Weisberg is currently the CEO of Pushkin Industries, a media company focused on audio content, which he co-founded with

. Pushkin focuses on creating new podcasts, audiobooks and short-form audio content. The company produces the podcast '' Revisionist History'', hosted by Gladwell, which was previously produced through

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, a division of Slate Group. Until September 2018, Weisberg was the Editor in Chief of Slate Group. Previously, he was a commentator on

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. He also worked for ''

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'' in Washington, D.C., and was a contributing writer for ''

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'' and a contributing editor to '' Vanity Fair''. He has served as a columnist for the ''

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''. Early in his career, he worked for ''

'' in the London and Washington bureaus. Weisberg has also worked as a

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journalist for numerous publications.

Books

The creator and author of the ''

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s'' series, Weisberg published ''

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'' in 2008. He is also the author, with former

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executive and Secretary of the Treasury

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, of the latter's memoir, ''In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington'', which was a ''New York Times'' bestseller as well as one of ''

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''s ten best business books of 2003. Weisberg's first book, ''In Defense of Government'', was published in 1996. He chaired the judging panel for the 2009

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