Jessi Hempel

Product Manager

Brooklyn, New York, United States28 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over two decades of media experience
Published memoir with HarperCollins
Expert in technology and innovation storytelling

Stackforce AI infers this person is a media and technology storytelling expert.

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Core Skills

JournalismEditingWritingCourse CreationEvent PlanningTeaching

Other Skills

StorytellingTechnologyNetworkingMediaResearchProgram DesignSocial MediaPress ReleasesCopy EditingEnterprise SoftwareFacebookMagazinesPublishing

About

I’ve spent more than two decades in media, telling stories that matter. Today, I’m a senior editor at large at LinkedIn, where I focus on the business of technology, the impact of innovation, and the people making change happen behind the scenes. My goal is to cut through the noise. I offer insight, context, and stories that help our global audience make sense of how work is changing. At LinkedIn, I write essays and newsletters, produce and host podcast episodes, and lead conversations on everything from AI and social media to career growth, leadership, and ethics. I also moderate live events and interviews with influential thinkers shaping the future of work. In 2022, I published my debut memoir with HarperCollins, The Family Outing. It's a personal story about identity, family, and what it means to come together by coming out. I bring that same spirit of curiosity and honesty to everything I create. It's my goal to inform, engage, and inspire.

Experience

28 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Senior Editor at Large

Oct 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · New York City

Through editorial work, I provide deep reporting, uniquely knowledgeable insight, and a sense of what really matters in an echo chamber full of distracting journalistic noise.

JournalismEditingStorytelling

Condé nast

Head of Editorial; Backchannel

Jun 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Wired

Senior Writer

Sep 2014 – Oct 2018 · 4 yrs 1 mo · New York

I write regular features on the business of technology.

JournalismWritingTechnology

Nyu scps: center for publishing

Adjunct Professor

Mar 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · New York, NY

I created a new course for NYU's Masters in Publishing graduate program: Digital Management Strategies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Through a study of these companies' business models, marketing strategies and penetration of the media, students learn the role of Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook in shaping how society connects, consumes content and conveys information.

Course CreationTeaching

Fortune brainstorm tech

Co-Chair

Jul 2011 – Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Along with Adam Lashinsky and Dan Primack, I organize, program and issue invitations for a technology conference addressing the most prominent issues in the industry. We invite 400 tech CEOs & founders, Fortune 500 leaders, and investors to join us for a three-day brainstorm at the Aspen Institue in Aspen, CO.

Event PlanningNetworking

Fortune magazine

Senior Writer

Jul 2007 – Aug 2014 · 7 yrs 1 mo

I write regular features on technology, advertising and media for the magazine. I post thought pieces, analysis on current events, and the occasional piece of breaking news on Fortune.com. I cohost Tech Debate, a weekly video program on Fortune.com. I participate in events on Fortune's behalf, moderating panels and interviewing business leaders, and I represent Fortune from time to time on CNN, CNBC, and Al Jazeera America. I also participate in a group tasked with developing a new digital strategy for Fortune.

JournalismWritingMedia

Businessweek

Innovation Editor

Jun 2003 – Jun 2007 · 4 yrs

I wrote cover stories “Valley Boys” and “The MySpace Generation." I helped develop IN: Inside Innovation, and innovation supplement. I developed and wrote Design Schools Special Report, Philanthropy Special Report. I appeared on numerous radio and television programs including CNBC “Wakeup Call,” FOX News Channel, MSNBC, and FOX “Good Day New York." I was a regular guest on ABC “World News This Morning”

JournalismWriting

Time asia

Intern

May 2002 – Sep 2002 · 4 mos

I researched and wrote weekly world events page on deadline. I reported and wrote travel feature looking at Nagasaki, Japan fifty years after the atomic bomb. I interviewed subjects for cover story on diabetes in Asia.

ResearchWriting

Bay area school reform collaborative

Writer

Jan 2000 – Aug 2002 · 2 yrs 7 mos

I wrote, edited, and managed production for InDepth, a quarterly publication covering school reform issues. I wrote case studies on schools for annual reports, grant applications, and press releases.

WritingEditing

Teach for america

Teacher

Sep 1998 – Aug 1999 · 11 mos

I taught fourth grade. I designed a before-school literacy program.

TeachingProgram Design

Freelance writer

Freelance Writer

Jan 1998 – Jun 2003 · 5 yrs 5 mos

I wrote features on grief and violence in Kashmir for Salon.com, Indian Express. I covered Pixar’s employee education program for SFGate.com. I wrote education and environmental features from Nagasaki, Japan for the San Jose Mercury News. I wrote tech story for CBS.Marketwatch.com’s holiday retail package. I covered growth of eating disorders among Asian women for WomensEnews.org.

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