About

Pushkin Industries was started with a few simple precepts. Put artists and creators first. Produce work that we believe in. And, have fun.

Pushkin Industries is an audio production company co-founded by Jacob Weisberg and Malcolm Gladwell in 2018. Alexander Pushkin, the Russian Romantic writer, is our inspiration. Pushkin was a hybrid, a mix of Russian, African, and French ancestry — as well as a philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist. Like him, our company is curious about everything and always wants to try something new. Diversity is at the heart of our culture, alongside intellectual openness, respect, fairness, and ethical behavior.

Pushkin Industries is headquartered in New York City with a northern outpost in Hudson, NY, and satellite offices in London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston.

Diversity Principles

Pushkin Industries was co-founded by a person of color and is named after a bi-racial poet. Diversity is at the heart of our culture, alongside intellectual openness, respect, fairness, and ethical behavior. Here are the commitments we’ve made toward building a genuinely diverse company and to promoting greater equality in our industry:

  1. Diversity is a core value at Pushkin. We seek it in our staff, in our shows, and in the voices of our hosts and guests.
  2. To that end, we seek out diverse applicants for all positions at Pushkin. We post open positions publicly, recruit through minority organizations and networks, and avoid relying on personal networks that may reflect systemic bias.
  3. We don’t use unpaid interns or volunteers. We don’t rely on contract workers for long-term, full-time work. Employees at Pushkin are offered benefits and a living wage.
  4. Comparable work earns comparable pay at Pushkin. We will monitor ourselves to ensure that we don’t have gender or racial pay gaps.
  5. We don’t pigeon-hole people to work on projects according to their identities.
  6. We don’t participate in panel discussions that lack racial or gender diversity.
  7. Pushkin supports industry efforts to diversify audio by training more people of color as producers, editors, and engineers.

Editorial Principles

Pushkin Industries is expanding the possibilities of spoken word audio. We produce podcasts, audiobooks and other projects that inform, entertain, and inspire listeners. Our work is built on principles of trust: respect and fairness, accuracy, accountability, and honesty. We understand that crucial to earning and nurturing trust is a workplace that values creativity, diversity and open communication.

Our work at Pushkin Industries is distinguished by its editorial process, and our producers and editors follow internal guidelines for ethical best practices. We strive for accuracy in reporting and storytelling. We seek out multiple viewpoints on complex issues. To ensure our standards are met, our content undergoes thorough editorial review prior to publication.

We aim to produce well-rounded stories that reflect the true complexity of the world we live in. We believe accountability to our staff and audiences makes our work better. We recognize our ethical responsibility to correct factual errors, large and small, and we are transparent about those corrections. We credit the work of others, avoid conflicts of interest, and make clear the funding sources of our work.

Our values of respect and fairness extend to the multiplicity of listeners and readers, including those with varying cultural backgrounds, who encounter our work. We approach our work in the spirit of transparency, safety, and humanity.

Have a question or feedback?

Please write us at info@pushkin.fm.

Staff

Julia Barton

VP & Executive Editor

Royston Beserve

Operations Coordinator, Ads & Promos

Carrie Brody

Head of Business Development

Brittani Brown

Associate Producer

Sarah Bruguiere

Audio Systems Engineer

Shawn Carney

Creative Director

Izii Carter

Producer

Daphne Chen

Producer

Gretta Cohn

SVP, Content Production

Sophie Crane

Senior Editor

Farrah Desgranges

Project Manager

Ryan Dilley

Executive Producer, The Happiness Lab

Heather Fain

Chief Operating Officer

Jasmine Faustino

Senior Managing Editor, Audiobooks

Joey Fischground

Producer

Jake Flanagin

Operations Associate

Amy Gaines

Producer

Constanza Gallardo

Managing Producer

Jason Gambrell

VP, Engineering

Blair Gilkes

Accounting Manager

Alexandra Garreton

Managing Producer

Catherine Girardeau

Executive Producer

Malcolm Gladwell

President & Co-Founder

David Glover

Officer Manager

Jacob Goldstein

Executive Producer

Jacob Gorski

Mix Engineer · Sound Designer

Courtney Guarino

Producer

Maya Koenig

Associate Director, Operations

Kerri Kolen

Editorial Director, Audiobooks

Lidia Jean Kott

Editor

Monique Laborde

Senior Producer

Daniella Lakhan

Operations Associate

Justine Lang

Senior Director, Development

Nina Bird Lawrence

Office & Studio Manager

Tara Machado

Executive Assistant

Ariella Markowitz

Post Production Manager

Jordyn McMillin

Social Media Coordinator

Lee Mengitsu

Producer

Carly Migliori

VP, Partnerships

Owen Miller

Content Delivery Associate

Leital Molad

SVP, Content Development

Nicole Morano

Senior Director of Communications

Ben Naddaff-Hafrey

Senior Producer

Isabella Narvaez

Publicist

Brendan Francis Newnam

VP, Special Audio Projects

Sara Nics

Deputy Executive Editor

Dan O’Donnell

Executive Producer, Director of Partner Production

Nicole Op Den Bosch

VP, Operations

Kate Parkinson-Morgan

Senior Editor

Ian Peksa

Director of IT Operations

Jasmine Perez

Production Manager

Camille Petersen

Senior Producer

Kiarra Powell

Producer

Meghna Rao

Director of Development, TV/FILM

Morgan Ratner

Associate Director, Podcast Marketing

Justin Richmond

Executive Producer

Leah Rose

Senior Producer

Edith Rousselot

Associate Producer

Eric Sandler

VP, Marketing

Jon Schnaars

Chief Business Officer

Karen Shakerdge

Editor

Anna Skrabacz

Marketing Manager, Audiobooks

Jacob Smith

Executive Producer

Brian Srebrenik

Senior Manager, Analytics

Christina Sullivan

VP, Finance

Lucie Sullivan

Producer

Keziah Tan

Director, People Operations

Ben Tolliday

Audio Engineer

Emily Vaughn

Producer

Nisha Venkat

Associate Producer

Kay Wang

Audio Engineer

Jacob Weisberg

CEO & Co-Founder

Keishel Williams

Associate Editor

David Zha

Assistant Producer

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