Jana Kasperkevic

Jana is a deputy director of owned platforms at NBC News. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Marketplace, Inc. Magazine, Houston Chronicle and The Village Voice, among others.

In addition to reporting and editing, she is interested in exploring how people consume news. In 2016, she worked with Guardian’s Mobile Innovation Lab on finding a better way to explain the U.S. job report via web and mobile notifications. In 2018, she spent five months writing one-minute explainer scripts for Marketplace’s flagship smart-speaker skill, “Alexa, Make Me Smart.” The scripts have also been used to create Facebook videos on subjects like the origins of the cubicle and the history of the 40-hour workweek.

In 2017, Jana spent a semester at the University of Chicago as a journalist in residence at the Stigler Center.

She is a graduate of Baruch College, City University of New York. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.