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Jenniffer Weigel is an Emmy Award winning Broadcaster from Chicago. She currently runs JCW Productions, creating entertainment programs and stories for television as well as her website staytunedwithjen.com. She was the host and Executive Producer for the food and lifestyle show TASTE, which aired on NBC in Chicago.

Jenniffer's broadcasting career started in radio, where she was teamed up as a sidekick for radio personalities such as Jonathan Brandmeier, Danny Bonaduce, Steve Cochran, and movie critic Richard Roeper. She then moved into television, reviewing movies and filing entertainment reports for superstation WGN for three years before moving over to CBS news. She spent three years at CBS affiliate WBBM-TV in Chicago as an anchor and reporter, where she was honored with an Emmy Award in 2000 for her on-camera reporting. Jenniffer co-hosted a weekly talk show on WLS-AM radio for 2 years before moving over to WGN-AM.

She travels the country speaking to women's groups, schools, and the media about ethics in journalism, and encouraging people to follow their dreams. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times, as well as Today's Chicago Woman, where she was an entertainment columnist for two years.

She is an accomplished singer, and performed the National Anthem at both Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park.

Jenniffer helped to establish the Tim Weigel Scholarship Fund in honor of her late father to raise money for broadcast journalism students in financial need. With the help of colleagues Bob Costas, Greg Gumbel, and Brent Musburger, the fund is now part of an annual event that has gained national attention. She is now a blogger with the Chicago Tribune's blogging community Chicagonow.com. Her second book "I'm Spiritual Dammit" comes out in September of 2010.