Newspaper Hires Audio Director

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Audacy CEO David Field’s new favorite line is, ‘There is no better time to be in the audio space.’ It appears a big-time newspaper agrees with that assessment. Renita Jablonski has been hired away from Spotify by the Washington Post to be the Director of Audio for the paper. Jablonski was an editorial lead on Gimlets new formats team. Spotify owns Gimlet.

Jablonski was part of the team that piloted “The Get Up” Spotify’s morning show and was an editor on the show. She also helped launch “Murder Ballads and “Halleloo Happy Hour,” a platform that allows talk segments to be inserted between songs.

Early in the pandemic, she was an editor on “The Journal,” the Wall Street Journal’s daily news podcast. She collaborated with a small team, including Gimlet’s co-founder, to recast “Gimlet Academy” – an internal training podcast – into a public tool to teach podcasters how to take their narrative work to the next level.

Before joining Gimlet, Jablonski spent nearly nine years at NPR, where she was a senior editor at “All Things Considered” for more than four years. Before that, she was an editor and producer with “Morning Edition.” She was also a producer and fill-in anchor in the newscast unit, working on the network’s hourly news updates.

Earlier in her career, Jablonski was a producer and fill-in host at American Public Media’s Marketplace Morning Report in Los Angeles. She studied communications at Ohio University before spending time at local public radio stations in Cleveland and Kent, Ohio.

Jablonski’s first day will be July 26.

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