Jacob Weisberg is co-founder and Executive Chair of Pushkin Industries, an audio publishing company he founded with Malcolm Gladwell in 2018. Pushkin produces audiobooks and podcasts, including Revisionist History, Against the Rules with Michael Lewis and The Happiness Lab with Laurie Santos.
A native of Chicago, Weisberg attended Yale University and New College, Oxford. He worked at The New Republic, Newsweek, and New York Magazine before joining Slate in 1996. He was Editor of Slate from 2002 to 2008, before expanding his role by founding The Slate Group. There he launched The Root with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the membership program Slate Plus, and the podcast technology company Megaphone, which was sold to Spotify in 2020.
He is the author of books including Ronald Reagan (2016), The Bush Tragedy (2008), In an Uncertain World (2003), written with former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin. Weisberg is also a contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Weisberg has taught the Ethics of Journalism at Yale and serves as Chair of The Committee to Protect Journalists.
