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Podcaster/Reporter Alex Blumberg Comes Home For Mercantile Library Talk

Alex Blumberg, CEO and co-founder of podcast producer Gimlet Media, will speak at the Mercantile Library on August 15.
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Alex Blumberg, CEO and co-founder of podcast producer Gimlet Media, will speak at the Mercantile Library on August 15.
Alex Blumberg, CEO and co-founder of podcast producer Gimlet Media, will speak at the Mercantile Library on August 15.
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Alex Blumberg, CEO and co-founder of podcast producer Gimlet Media, will speak at the Mercantile Library on August 15.

In 2015, Fast Company named the podcast production business one of the top 10 most innovative media companies in the world. Gimlet CEO and co-founder Alex Blumberg, a Cincinnati native, has spent his career telling stories. 

He currently hosts the Gimlet Media podcast StartUp, has worked as a reporter, co-founded Planet Money and was a producer for . Alex Blumberg will be in Cincinnati next week to speak at the . He joins us this afternoon to discuss the art and business of storytelling and podcasting.

To listen to theStartUppodcast about 2680 Madison Road in Hyde Park, click here.

AlexBlumbergwill be speaking at the Mercantile Library on August 15. For information and registration, click here

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