Jenna Weiss-Berman

Weiss-Berman is a native of Massachusetts and graduated from Oberlin College in 2005.

Public Radio

In 2012, Weiss-Berman completed the Transom Story Workshop, a nine-week, radio storytelling intensive. Following a stint at The Moth, where she served as Head of Production, she joined NPR, co-creating and producing Hidden Brain.

BuzzFeed

After almost a decade working in public radios like The Moth, WNYC's Death, Sex and Money, and The Longform Podcast, Weiss-Berman started the podcast department at BuzzFeed where she was responsible for the ground-up development of the successful company’s audio arm," creating shows like Another Round and Women of the Hour with Lena Dunham. While there, she was responsible for every aspect of the podcast department from legal contracts, finding sponsorships and the content itself as a producer.

Pineapple Street Studios

In 2016, she left BuzzFeed to launch Pineapple Street Media, a Brooklyn-based full-service podcast production company, with her friend, Longform co-founder, Max Linsky. Weiss-Berman has said that the goal was to be able to make podcasts for non-audio companies and the decision to launch Pineapple Street came after both she and Linksy turned down many such requests.

Pineapple Street's early clients included The New York Times, Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter and ad agency Wieden+Kennedy. In the summer of 2016, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign hired Pineapple Street to produce a podcast (the first ever for a presidential candidate). Clinton and Linsky co-hosted the show, called With Her.

Pineapple Street Media has partnered with brands like Coach, Nike, Morgan Stanley, Mailchimp, Mastercard and Google, and produced critically-acclaimed original series like Missing Richard Simmons, Running From COPS, The Clearing, The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow, Wind of Change, Back Issue and Welcome to Your Fantasy.

In 2017, she was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business.

In 2019, Pineapple Street Media was sold to Audacy (formerly Entercom) and rebranded as Pineapple Street Studios. She remained with Audacy, and in 2023 was elevated to Executive Vice President of Podcasts, where she oversaw Audacy’s podcast network and studios, including Pineapple Street Studios and Cadence13, along with strategy and development of new podcast content and distribution partnerships.

Weiss-Berman is married to writer Kira Garcia.