Editing Brandon Tartikoff (section)

==Early life and education==
Born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Norwood |first1=Stephen Harlan |first2=Eunice G. |last2= Pollack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IB3mBsgfIHQC&pg=PA477 |title=Encyclopedia of American Jewish History |page=477 |year=2008 |publisher=[[ABC-Clio]] |location=United Kingdom |language=en |isbn=978-1-851-09638-1}}</ref><ref name=Shtetl>{{cite book|url=http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=purduepress_previews|first=Vincent|last=Brook|title=From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood: Chapter 1: Still an Empire of Their Own: How Jews Remain Atop a Reinvented Hollywood|pages=12 |publisher=Purdue University Press}}</ref>  in [[Freeport, New York|Freeport]], [[New York (state)|New York]], Tartikoff was a graduate of [[Lawrenceville School]] and [[Yale University]], where he contributed to campus humor magazine ''[[The Yale Record]]''.

While attending Yale, Tartikoff worked as an account executive and sales manager for [[WTNH|WNHC-TV]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], [[Connecticut]], as well as in [[Hartford, Connecticut]]. Tartikoff spent vacations in Los Angeles looking for a job in network television. After graduating from Yale, he took a series of jobs in advertising and local television, including [[WLS-TV]] in [[Chicago]], Illinois.