I help pick writers and shape their scripts. I watch rough cuts of shows and suggest editing changes that would make the stories stronger on a visual level. The TV industry is a relationship business more so than most industries. I broke in because my journalism career at Variety and Electronic Media gave me access to all of the TV industry's leaders. As crass as it may sound, it also helps to have a friend or family member in the business.
Connections are very important in Hollywood.
Jenny is a 1993 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. In college, Jenny wrote and edited stories for a campus magazine and interned at the American Bar Association Press and the Huntington Herald-Dispatch. She was also a member of a children's theater troupe, and she taught gymnastics. There she covered Congress, the FCC and the White House, focusing mainly on the massive rewrite of the Communications Act. Jenny transferred to the Los Angeles bureau of Electronic Media in the fall of 1995 and began writing about the TV industry.