Michelle Jaconi

Michelle Jaconi is the Executive Producer, Creative at The Washington Post. Michelle previously served as the Executive Producer at CNN from January 2009 to December 2014, where they founded CNN’s Cross Platform Programming unit. In their six years at CNN, Jaconi launched and led programs in every television day part, most recently with the rebirth of “Inside Politics.” As an executive producer, they ran control rooms and hired teams for both television and digital arms of CNN. Michelle also co-wrote a daily political blog and email newsletter during the 2012 presidential campaign.

Jaconi’s proudest journalistic achievements at CNN were serving on the presidential debate team and creating CNN’s “State of the Union” program, where they pitched, sold and produced a 50 state tour of America during the first year of the Obama administration.

In May 2015, Jaconi became the Vice President and Executive Editor/Senior Adviser at Independent Journal Review. In this role, they were responsible for the editorial vision and strategy for IJR.com, as well as growing IJR’s video and social media platforms. Michelle also oversaw a team of writers, editors, and producers who created original content across all IJR platforms.

Michelle Jaconi received a Bachelor of Science from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Michelle then went on to receive their Master's Degree in International Diplomacy from Georgetown University. Michelle also studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

They work with Phoebe Connelly - Deputy Video Editor, David Bruns - Executive Producer. Michelle Jaconi reports to Micah Gelman, Director of Editorial Video.