JACKIE HAJDENBERG
Journalism Experience
70 FACES MEDIA
ASSOCIATE EDITOR, MY JEWISH LEARNING
June 2026-present
Led YouTube brand strategy. Managed multiple daily email newsletters, reaching tens of thousands of readers. Edited daily essays for publication. Managed website homepage for topical relevance in CMS. Wrote explainer essays and newsletter-native content. Partnered with social media, editorial, and revenue teams to support marketing initiatives and cross-promote roster of programs. Contributed ideas and essays to holiday content.
REPORTER, JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY + THE NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK
March 2022-June 2026
Reported and wrote nearly 600 articles covering education, race, politics, religion, pop culture, fashion, labor, sports, food, LGBTQ+ issues, internet culture, civil rights, and antisemitism. Owned the New York City beat, covering Jewish life, news, and culture across the boroughs. Interviewed dozens of high-profile individuals, including celebrities, executives, artists, and political figures. Secured exclusive reporting access to a viewing of the Codex Sassoon and an interview with its buyer at Sotheby’s. Built out the LGBTQ+ Orthodox beat with multiple reported stories and deep sourcing. Established a beat covering controversies involving fashion brands like Louis Vuitton and Adidas. Persistent reporting on legal stories, including looted artwork cases and international high stakes prisoner swaps. Reported and wrote a viral article about a TikTok trend in Israel that was quoted and linked in The New York Times and Washington Post, ranking as the most-read article of the year on the JTA website for multiple weeks. Reporting is frequently syndicated and quoted in publications including The Forward, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post and has also been quoted by The Daily Mail, Food & Wine, Today, Vox, and Business Insider.
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AT MSNBC
March 2021-November 2021
Logged and transcribed breaking news events and guest interviews. Researched, selected, and ysed Avid and iNews in order to locate required footage for broadcast. Gathered information on breaking news stories for anchors to relay on air. Byline in Meet The Press blog.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING FELLOW, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM INVESTIGATIONS/USA TODAY + PBS FRONTLINE
July 2020-December 2020
Co-reported and co-wrote three front-page investigative and data stories for USA Today/PBS Frontline on absentee ballot rejection and voter fraud allegations. Contributed reporting to three Detroit Free Press articles on the 2020 Michigan primary elections and election administration. Investigative work on absentee ballot rejections in the 2020 General Election. Reporting featured in PBS Frontline documentary, “Whose Vote Counts”.
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL
August 2019 - May 2020
Master of Science with coursework in investigative techniques, documentary video production, environmental writing, and history. Covered public housing, homeless shelters, and nonprofits in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Documentary work on Modern Orthodox Jewish dating practices. Documentary work on the novel coronavirus. Master’s thesis on voter suppression of youth vote-by-mail ballots.
HONEYSUCKLE MAGAZINE
February 2019 - August 2019
Copyedited articles for upload to Honeysuckle website. Contributed reporting and research on cannabis law and subculture. Conducted interviews. Created and managed the new humor column, HoneyChuckle. Social media management and engagement. Developed concepts for new magazine, The HoneyPot.
WHOWHATWHY
March 2019 - June 2019
Online investigative news publication. Assisted Editor-in-Chief with special projects, recruiting, and editorial departments. Contributed research to WhoWhatWhy articles.
NBCUNIVERSAL
SEPTEMBER 2017 - DECEMBER 2017
Pitched, researched and reported on national clients for more than 20 sponsored content articles for publication across various NBC Owned Television Stations websites. Image formatting for upload to CMS, using Adobe Photoshop. Edited online content in Spanish for Telemundo.
COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR
(Various) 2015 - 2017
Trainee, Spectrum (2017)
Lifestyle section. Pitched and wrote five articles on life at Columbia. Reported on housing for a live streamed data visualization project.
Opinion Columnist, Spectator (2016)
Pitched and wrote bi-weekly columns on campus politics, health, and Judaism. Collaborated with editors in real time.
Featured op-ed columnist, Spectator (2015-2016)
Wrote two op-eds on campus politics, one featured in the weekly print edition of Spectator. Collaborated with editors in real-time.