Nazanin Rafsanjani

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Nazanin Rafsanjani
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Known for The Rachel Maddow Show , Gimlet Media
Spouse Alex Blumberg

Nazanin Rafsanjani is the former head of new show development for Gimlet Media. [1] Previously she was creative director at Gimlet Media and before that, a senior producer for The Rachel Maddow Show .

Rafsanjani was featured in the first season of Gimlet's podcast StartUp, [2] consulting with her husband Alex Blumberg as he launched a media company then called American Podcasting Corporation. [3] As the business grew, Rafsanjani elected to join the team, specifically to develop branded podcasts (podcasts produced by Gimlet on behalf of advertisers) as a source of revenue for the firm. [4] [5] The first branded podcast from Rafsanjani's four-person creative team at Gimlet was a six-episode series for eBay called Open for Business, which hit number one on the iTunes podcast chart. [6] Rafsanjani has been praised for the journalism and producing skills she brings to Gimlet's marketing projects; [7] hiring for her team at Gimlet Creative also drew from journalism, including Katelyn Bogucki from The Huffington Post and Frances Harlow from NPR's Planet Money .

In 2013, Rafsanjani was nominated for an Emmy, with The Rachel Maddow Show team, for Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis. [8] She has also been a contributor to This American Life and a 2006 NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellow. [9]

She serves on the board of directors of Human Rights First. [10]

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