Westwood One Podcast Network Adds Four

• Cumulus Media’s Westwood One Podcast Network announced the hire of four production pros to take on new roles to enhance the network’s exceptional audio content. All four will report to John Wordock, Executive Editor.

Madena Parwana has been named Senior Producer, Core Content. She will help manage and produce podcasts that cover news, lifestyle and entertainment, sports, and business/money. Lou Pellegrino is named Senior Producer, Development. He will manage and assess inbound podcast pitches as well as help to develop pilots and shows. Rebekah Wineman has been named as Audio Mixing Engineer/Studio Technician, supporting post-production, sound quality, field engineering and studio maintenance, and Sarah McCrory has been named Associate Producer. She will support hosts, help edit and produce shows and book guests.

Parwana (left) previously served as a producer and associate producer in the Global Radio Division of Bloomberg LP. She produced Bloomberg’sMasters in Businessand The Business of Sportspodcasts. She was also senior podcast producer and co-host of Unique Radio with Will Castro, and was an associate producer/board op for SiriusXM and a live TV podcast producer for Inravio.com’s The Gina Cutillo Show.

Pellegrino (second from left) was previously executive producer of Podcasts for Cadence 13 where he produced The Woj Pod and was involved with Pod Save America. He also served as a producer for NBC Sports Radio and an associate producer for DirecTV, and worked as a freelance producer for The Dan Patrick Show and MSG Networks.

Wineman (second from right) previously worked as an audio engineer for The Wall Street Journal, mixing the What’s News podcast. She was also a mixing and mastering engineer for NPR’s Latino USA and In the Thick, a concert recording coordinator for McGill University and handled live sound recordings for the Aspen Music Festival.

McCrory (right) most recently worked as a production coordinator and podcast coordinator for Fox News Channel in New York City & Washington. She worked on the podcasts Livin’ the Bream and The FOX News Rundown.

Wordock said, “This latest round of hiring further demonstrates Westwood One’s commitment to quality and scale as we grow our podcast business and serve our extraordinary partners and content providers. Madena, Lou, Rebekah, and Sarah have diverse and distinctive skill sets that will greatly contribute to the success and evolution of podcasting at Westwood One.”