1. Jacob Weisberg was born on 1964 and is an American political journalist, who served as editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company.
16 Facts About Jacob Weisberg
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Jacob Weisberg served as the editor of Slate magazine for six years before stepping down in June 2008.
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Jacob Weisberg is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and municipal commissioner.
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Jacob Weisberg's parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison.
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Jacob Weisberg's brother is former CIA officer and television writer and producer Joe Weisberg.
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Jacob Weisberg graduated from Yale University in 1986, where he worked for the Yale Daily News.
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Jacob Weisberg is currently the Executive Chair of Pushkin Industries, a media company focused on audio content, which he co-founded with Malcolm Gladwell.
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Jacob Weisberg produces the podcast Revisionist History, hosted by Gladwell, which was previously produced through Panoply Media, a division of Slate Group.
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Until September 2018, Jacob Weisberg was the Editor in Chief of Slate Group.
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Jacob Weisberg worked for The New Republic in Washington, DC, and was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair.
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Jacob Weisberg has served as a columnist for the Financial Times.
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Jacob Weisberg has worked as a freelance journalist for numerous publications.
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The creator and author of the Bushisms series, Jacob Weisberg published The Bush Tragedy in 2008.
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Jacob Weisberg is the author, with former Goldman Sachs executive and Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, 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 Business Weeks ten best business books of 2003.
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Jacob Weisberg chaired the judging panel for the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for excellence in non-fiction writing.
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Jacob Weisberg is married to style and fashion journalist Deborah Needleman, editor of domino magazine, and formerly editor-in-chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.