Editing Jacob Weisberg (section)

==Career==
Weisberg is currently the Executive Chair of Pushkin Industries, <ref> https://www.podpod.com/article/1857468/pushkin-industries-promotes-gretta-cohn-ceo </ref> a media company focused on audio content, which he co-founded with [[Malcolm Gladwell]]. Pushkin focuses on creating new podcasts, audiobooks and short-form audio content.<ref name=":0" /> The company produces the podcast ''[[Revisionist History (podcast)|Revisionist History]]'', hosted by Gladwell, which was previously produced through [[Panoply Media]], a division of [[The Slate Group|Slate Group]]. Until September 2018, Weisberg was the Editor in Chief of Slate Group.<ref name=":0" />

Previously, he was a commentator on [[National Public Radio]]. He also worked for ''[[The New Republic]]'' in Washington, D.C., and was a contributing writer for ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]''<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title='I Am Charlotte Simmons': Peeping Tom|first=Jacob|last=Weisberg|date=November 28, 2004|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/books/28WEISBER.html}}</ref> and a contributing editor to ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''. He has served as a columnist for the ''[[Financial Times]]''. Early in his career, he worked for ''[[Newsweek]]'' in the London and Washington bureaus. Weisberg has also worked as a [[freelancer|freelance]] journalist for numerous publications.

===Books===
The creator and author of the ''[[Bushism]]s'' series, Weisberg published ''[[The Bush Tragedy]]'' in 2008.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} He is also 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|''New York Times'' bestseller]] as well as one of ''[[Business Week]]''{{'}}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 [[BBC]] [[Samuel Johnson Prize]] for excellence in non-fiction writing.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}