Jillian Weinberger
Deputy Editorial Director, Narrative Podcasts
Jillian Weinberger is Vox’s former deputy editorial director for narrative podcasts. She worked on a range of documentary-style shows and series for The Impact, Today, Explained, and Unexplainable.
She has spent most of her career in audio storytelling and live radio, at WNYC, Reveal, and now at Vox, where she helped launch the Impact in 2017.
Jillian focuses her reporting on the myriad ways powerful people and interests affect our lives, from public housing in Baltimore, to courtrooms in Oakland and Akron, to family playgroups in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work has been recognized with awards from the Alliance for Women in Media, the RTDNA, the New York Festivals, and the NABJ.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Jillian lives in Washington, DC.
Latest articles by Jillian Weinberger
Since Roe was decided in 1973, the US’s political parties got further apart on abortion.
Overturning precedent isn’t easy, but Jim Bopp has been fighting for decades.
The homicide rate fell dramatically across American cities throughout the 2000s. In 2020, it skyrocketed. That climb continues.
Nearly 25 years ago, the federal government divided Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, with a wall that looks a lot like the one President Trump wants to extend along the southern border.
A long-running program in Kalamazoo shows that students need more than tuition to make it through to graduation.
The Canadian government gives parents money each month. Listen to this episode of The Impact to find out how the program has made a real difference.
Listen to this episode of The Impact podcast to learn what Australian health care can teach the US about a public option.
The US can learn a lot from Taiwan’s 25 years with a single-payer health insurance system.
One man, some very old solar panels, and a law that looks a lot like part of the proposed US Green New Deal helped transform the way Germany gets its power.
What Democrats running for president have learned from President Ford on criminal justice.
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