The Washington Post announced Michelle Jaconi will be Head of News Talent Strategy and Development, effective August 16. In this newly created role, Jaconi will lead talent development initiatives across a variety of formats and emerging platforms, creating features and products to amplify the voices and personalities of Post journalists. She will also identify opportunities to showcase journalists' signature styles and connect their work with a broader audience. In her most recent role as executive producer of the creative video team, Jaconi worked to develop personality-driven video series designed to attract new audiences to The Post, including "How to Be aJournalist" and "Secret Table." Working with Dave Jorgenson, The Post launched on TikTok and since has grown to nearly a million followers, with more than 40 million likes. Jaconi also produced tentpole live video events including coverage of two impeachment trials, multiple debates and two election nights. Before joining The Post in 2017, Michelle was at Independent Journal Review and spent six years at CNN where she served as executive producer on "State of the Union" and "Inside Politics" and was a founding executive producer of CNN Politics's Cross Platform Programming Unit. Before CNN, Michelle was a programming executive and political analyst at NBC's "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert.