Jon Favreau
Pod Save America co-host and Crooked Media co-founder; Obama's director of speechwriting from 2009 to 2013.
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- Jon Favreau is an American political commentator, not the film director of the same name.
- He was Barack Obama's chief speechwriter on the 2008 campaign and White House director of speechwriting from 2009 to 2013, and the primary writer of the 2009 inaugural address.
- After the 2016 election he co-founded Crooked Media with Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett, and co-hosts its flagship podcast Pod Save America.
- He also hosts Offline, a weekly show on politics and life online.
Key facts
- Born
- 2 June 1981, Winchester, Massachusetts1
- Education
- BA in political science, College of the Holy Cross (2003), class valedictorian1
- Obama campaign
- Chief speechwriter from 2006, leading a team that included Ben Rhodes and Cody Keenan1
- White House
- Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting from 2009 to March 20131
- Crooked Media
- Co-founded with Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett after the 2016 election; co-hosts Pod Save America with Vietor, Lovett and Dan Pfeiffer1
- Hosts
- Offline with Jon Favreau, weekly conversations on politics, technology and life online2
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