Politico has named Annie Allen as govt producer of occasions, overseeing the media outlet’s group in North America.
Allen has been a tv and documentary producer, together with function at ABC Information, ESPN and reveals like Showtime’s The Circus.
She might be becoming a member of Cristina Gonzalez, Politico’s occasions govt producer with oversight of Europe.
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Cally Baute, govt vice chairman and normal supervisor, media enterprise, North America, and Jonathan Greenberger, govt vice chairman, wrote in a memo to workers that Allen and Gonzalez “will associate to collectively co-produce experiences on the greatest world moments, and they’re going to work in tandem to innovate throughout our dwell occasions experiences world wide. They may also be liable for leveraging the skills and experience of their groups and our unbelievable journalists on each side of the Atlantic to supply our audiences entry to essentially the most influential policymakers and newsmakers, and to the conversations that may form politics and coverage.”
Politico has been establishing “govt producer” roles, with plans within the works to rent an EP for the DC Playbook franchise. It lately named Zach Warmbrodt as the primary govt producer for Congress.
Allen joined Politico 5 months in the past in a short lived function to supply occasions programming on the CNN-Politico Grill on the Republican and Democratic conventions. The venues featured a collection of conversations with main lawmakers and political figures, together with Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, Home Speaker Mike Johnson and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Baute and Greenberger’s full memo is under:
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We write with an essential replace to September’s announcement that now we have unified groups throughout the U.S. and Europe right into a single, cohesive, POLITICO occasions division. Right this moment we’re thrilled to share that Annie Allen will turn out to be our new Government Producer of Occasions, overseeing the group right here in North America. Annie is the second EP in our new Stay Occasions division, becoming a member of Cristina Gonzalez, our Occasions EP with oversight of our European operations.
Annie and Cristina’s new roles are crucial steps ahead in our mission to attach, inform and delight dwell audiences the world over – and to make sure POLITICO’s dwell convenings are dwelling to the most popular tickets on the town. Annie and Cristina will associate to collectively co-produce experiences on the greatest world moments, and they’re going to work in tandem to innovate throughout our dwell occasions experiences world wide. They may also be liable for leveraging the skills and experience of their groups and our unbelievable journalists on each side of the Atlantic to supply our audiences entry to essentially the most influential policymakers and newsmakers, and to the conversations that may form politics and coverage.
As lots of you already know, Annie joined POLITICO 5 months in the past in a short lived function, serving to us put together for the dwell programming we had been producing through the U.S. political conventions on the CNN-POLITICO grills. It instantly turned clear that Annie’s ambition matched our personal: She believed POLITICO might – and may – ship our viewers an unparalleled collection of newsmaking conversations. Annie then executed on these huge desires, partnering with colleagues from all through the group to supply greater than 60 thought-provoking, revealing interviews with everybody from Speaker Mike Johnson to Senator Chuck Schumer. Annie did all of it by capitalizing on her infectious enthusiasm – and her refusal to take no for a solution.
Annie got here to POLITICO with greater than twenty years of expertise as an Emmy Award-winning community tv and documentary govt producer. Annie spent the primary 10 years of her profession at ABC Information, the place she coated CENTCOM through the invasion of Iraq, produced interviews with 4 presidents and numerous members of Congress and cupboard secretaries, a city corridor assembly on the White Home, and extra. She then joined the event group at ESPN, the place she crafted new collection for the sports activities programmer. Extra lately, Annie has labored on tasks together with Showtime’s “The Circus: Contained in the Biggest Political Present on Earth,” Nationwide Geographic’s 8-part documentary collection “Chain of Command,” and quite a few different tasks for A&E, the Historical past Channel, Lifetime, Apple TV+ and extra. Annie’s expertise contains creating applications from scratch: Constructing the idea, casting the tales, and delivering the applications on time and on finances.
In her new function right here, Annie will draw not simply on her unbelievable resume but in addition on companions all through the group, together with Jessie Niewold, our “POLITICO boomerang” who lately rejoined us as Government Director of Occasions right here in North America, and all of the members of the peerless occasions group Annie will now be main.
Annie begins her new function instantly – simply in time for tomorrow’s election and January’s inauguration of a brand new administration.
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