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Jenny Tartikoff

Courtesy SiriusXM

SiriusXM has named Jenny Tartikoff the company’s new senior vp and head of communications, effective on Monday, Aug. 10. She will report to Scott Greenstein, the company’s president and chief content officer. In her new role, Tartikoff will oversee SiriusXM’s content and serve as an advisor to its leadership team.

Tartikoff joins SiriusXM from Paramount Pictures, where she served as executive vp of global communications. Prior to that, she was head of content and advertising communications at Spotify and had been senior vp of global communications at Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. At the beginning of her career, she worked in communication for broadcast journalism, working at NBC News.