About me

I’m Jayne Orenstein. I describe myself as a video producer, team leader and content strategist. I create scroll-stopping social media posts, video series and multimedia stories.

I worked for over a decade at The Washington Post, which means I’m an expert storyteller who uses narrative techniques, emotion and humor to create videos people can’t stop watching. I’m also an empathetic leader who takes pride in mentoring and developing talent. At The Post, I determined the best workflows for new storytelling formats, built up our drone video and photo program and collaborated across newsroom departments to create visually-compelling stories.

I was most recently a Senior Video Editor and Producer for the Biden-Harris administration, where you could find me running between the Executive Office Building, the West Wing and the White House filming the President’s events. I’d create short and highly engaging videos for the President’s social channels that communicated what the administration was accomplishing directly to the American public. We also interviewed world leaders, cabinet members and celebrities that visited.

As a Senior Producer at The Washington Post, I ran a team that created short- and long-form video. I tackled any topic that came my way, including foreign news, politics, investigations, features, food, travel and climate. I guided the entire production process from ideation, filming and editing to publication and promotion, obsessing over headlines, copy and thumbnail images.

One project that I am most proud of is “The Ones Who Made It”, which features short interview soundbites from coaches on their careers and why they believe it is so difficult for Black coaches to get hired for the top roles on NFL teams. The story won an Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting. You can read more about it here.

I also edited a 14-episode high school football documentary series, “First and 17,” and the feature-length documentary of the same name, which premiered at AFI Docs in 2015.

You can reach me at jayne.orenstein@gmail.com