Pushkin Industries

Pushkin Industries is an American publisher of podcasts and audiobooks. It was co-founded in 2018 by Malcom Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg.[1][2][3]

History

It was co-founded in 2018 by Malcom Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, based on the idea by Weisberg.[1] The two worked together on Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History at Panoply Media and after the company exited the medium, the two and wanted to do more projects and decided to start their own company.[2] As of 2021, it had over 20 podcasts.[1] In 2019 the company began producing audiobooks starting with Gladwell's Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know . Among other books it published Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon co-written by Gladwell based on interviews with the musician Paul Simon.[1] Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia was written and conceived of as an audio production with sound effects and music, only after the script was complete was a book produced.[2]

References
  1. Shannon Maughan (November 5, 2021). "Pushkin Industries Pushes Audiobook Conventions". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  2. Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg (April 23, 2021). "Malcolm Gladwell's New Word Order: Audiobook First". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  3. Peiser, Jacklyn (September 12, 2018). "Jacob Weisberg Leaves Slate to Join Malcolm Gladwell in Podcast Venture". The New York Times. Retrieved Dec 31, 2018.
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