Tammy Haddad | Founder & CEO
Tammy Haddad is a media innovator whose Washington, DC company devises winning strategies for clients including some of the world’s top media companies, technology disruptors, innovative startups, and nonprofit organizations. She is the veteran television executive and executive producer behind MSNBC’s political coverage, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Larry King Live, TODAY Show, and The Late Late Show.
Haddad has more than 25 years of experience as an executive producer of landmark web, cable, and network programs. Her first success was as the creator and executive producer of CNN’s Larry King Live. She helmed the creation of the now-famous outdoor studio of NBC’s TODAY Show while serving as senior broadcast producer. She later became MSNBC’s Vice President of Washington and the channel’s political director in charge of election coverage and special events programming.
Founded in 2007, Haddad Media clients include Bloomberg, HBO, Politico, AMC, The Washington Post, The Week and National Journal. Haddad Media technology clients include Google, Uber, Amazon and Zignal Labs.
In 2023, Haddad founded the Washington AI Network, a bipartisan forum bringing together diverse stakeholders from industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and responsible development and deployment of AI technologies, as well as to discuss the greatest challenges and biggest opportunities presented by AI.
Haddad previously co-hosted Bloomberg’s Masters in Politics Podcast, interviewing the biggest names in politics, media, and policy. As a longtime Washington partner for HBO, she is a consultant on the HBO hit comedy series Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and for HBO Films, including Confirmation, starring Kerry Washington as Anita Hill, and All The Way, which stars Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Haddad Media has created and produced high profile multimedia events such as the premiere of Sony Pictures’ Brad Pitt feature film Fury, HBO Films’ Game Change, and Amazon’s Alpha House. She has produced some of Washington’s most buzzed about events including The Daily Beast’s Hero Summit, The Washington Ideas Forum: The First Draft of History, The Partnership for Public Service to America Awards for the Best in Government, Bloomberg Washington Summit, and The Week Opinion Awards.
In 2008 Haddad’s “Tam Cam” handheld video interview series, launched for Newsweek and also appeared in Politico, made headlines across America. Her guests included major public figures from then-presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama to actor Robert DeNiro. Her on air career began as host of The First Producers Club on America’s Voice featuring TV producers from Mark Burnett to Andrew Heyward, President of CBS News.
Haddad is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the White House Correspondents’ Insider (WHCInsider.com), exploring the political, power, and media cultures of the most powerful city in the world — Washington, D.C. — and those who cover it.
Haddad plays a principal role for Washington’s most important events during the White House Correspondents’ Weekend, including hosting the WHC Garden Brunch, which uses its platform to elevate charitable causes, including Dog Tag Bakery, an educational fellowship program for disabled veterans and military, the global maternal health campaign The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, CURE Epilepsy, and Blue Star Families.
Haddad is the recipient of some of television’s highest honors, including the Gracie Award for Best News Producer, two John Foster Peabody Awards, a Pollie Award for best public affairs campaign, and four Cable Ace Awards. Washingtonian Magazine named her one of the “Most Powerful Women in Washington,” and POLITICO called her “One of the 25 People You Should Know in Washington.”
She is a member of the International Neighbors Club, the International Women’s Forum, and sits on the Board of Trustees for The University of Pittsburgh and Dog Tag Bakery, where she chairs the development committee.