Jessi Hempel
Jessi Hempel | |
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| Jessi Hempel in New York, 2019 Jessi Hempel in New York, 2019 | |
| Born | April 17, 1975 Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, public speaker, podcaster |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Subject | Business and technology |
| Spouse | Frances Clayton |
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Jessi Hempel (born April 17, 1975) is an American journalist, public speaker and podcaster. She has worked as a senior writer or in similar roles at Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune and Wired. [1] In 2016-17, she also served as editorial director of the Backchannel (blog), which specializes in in-depth technology coverage. She currently is a senior editor at large at LinkedIn, where she hosts the "Hello Monday" podcast.[2]
Background and education[edit]
Jessi Hempel was born in Concord, Massachusetts. She graduated from Brown University in 1997, earning a B.A. in English with honors in creative writing. In 2003, she completed a master's degree in journalism from the University of California (Berkeley).[3]
Career[edit]
After graduating from Brown, Hempel in 1998-99 joined Teach for America and worked for a year as a fourth grade teacher.[4][5] Shortly after graduation, she also began a six-year career as a freelance journalist. Hempel's notable freelance articles included a feature on Pixar for the San Francisco Chronicle,[6] and a profile of a young middle-school teacher in Oakland, California, trying to make headway in difficult circumstances.[7] Hempel's travel article entitled "Knitting in Kathmandu" was later included in the W.W. Norton & Company anthology "Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting," alongside essays by renowned novelists such as Sue Grafton, Jane Smiley and Barbara Kingsolver.[8]
In 2003, Hempel joined Bloomberg Businessweek as its innovation editor. Her first cover story, co-written with Sarah Lacy, was headlined "Valley Boys" and highlighted the stunningly rapid paper fortunes being made by tech entrepreneurs under age 30, such as Digg co-founder Kevin Rose.[9] In 2007, Hempel joined Fortune (magazine) as a senior writer. In 2009, she wrote a Fortune cover story that has since been deemed a "Fortune Classic," headlined: "How Facebook is taking over our lives." [10] While at Fortune, Hempel also co-chaired the magazine's Aspen (Colorado) tech conference and made broadcast appearances on CNN, PBS, MSNBC, Fox News and CNBC.[11] From 2013 to 2015, Hempel also served as an adjunct professor at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, within the Publishing: Digital and Print Media program.[12]
Hempel joined Wired as a senior editor in 2014, staying until late 2018. Her notable features at Wired included "Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Artificial Intelligence Better for Humanity."[13] From 2016 to 2017, she also served as editorial director at Backchannel (blog), an online hub of technology-related coverage that Wired had acquired.
In October 2018, Hempel joined LinkedIn as a senior editor at large, where she hosts the "Hello Monday" podcast and publishes the weekly "Jessiwrites" newsletter.[14] In an April 2019 podcast interview with Recode executive editor Peter Kafka, she defined her writing focus as "“ideas-driven pieces about the nature of how technology companies are changing.”[15] Hempel's podcast guests on "Hello Monday" have included soccer star Abby Wambach, business-school professor Adam Grant, writer Roxane Gay and former Google chef Charlie Ayers. She has said she looks consistently for guests with heart, people in jobs that didn't exist a decade ago, and people with "a story to share about a challenge they've faced in their own careers." [16]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://foundersfair.vanityfair.com/speakers/jessi-hempel
- ↑ Jarvey, Natalie (February 28, 2019). "LinkedIn to Launch Workplace Podcast 'Hello Monday' (Exclusive)". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ↑ https://nyupubposts.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/meet-the-spring-faculty-new-faces-and-surprising-facts/
- ↑ https://www.educationalopportunitiesfund.org/staff/jessi-hempel/
- ↑ https://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/2014/events/event_IAP27958
- ↑ Hempel, Jessi (June 4, 2003). "Pixar University: Thinking Outside the Mouse". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ↑ Hempel, Jessi (May 1, 2002). "Catcher in the River". East Bay Express. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ↑ Hood, Ann, ed. (November 24, 2014). "Writers on Knitting". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 18 January 2020.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
- ↑ Lacy, Sarah; Hempel, Jessi (August 13, 2006). "Valley Boys". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ↑ Hempel, Jessi (March 1, 2009). "How Facebook is taking over our lives". Fortune. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ↑ https://techonomy.com/people/jessi-hempel/
- ↑ https://nyupubposts.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/native-news-native-now-at-nyu-media-talk/
- ↑ Hempel, Jessi (November 13, 2018). "Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Artificial Intelligence Better for Humanity". Wired. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ↑ Flynn, Kerry (October 23, 2019). "LinkedIn now has a newsroom of 65 journalists. It's hiring more". CNN.com. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ↑ Johnson, Eric (April 18, 2019). "Why is LinkedIn producing original journalism? LinkedIn editor-at-large Jessi Hempel explains". Recode/Vox. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ↑ Hempel, Jessi (November 13, 2018). "Where do our Hello Monday guests come from?". LinkedIn. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
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