Jack Myers is a media economist and Chairman of Media Advisory Group, which invests in early stage companies that advance and support the media and advertising business. Jack is the author of three books on advertising, writes the weekly (subscriber-only) Jack Myers Media Business Report and publishes JackMyersThinkTank.com and MediaBizBloggers.com blog platform for industry thought leaders. Jack is the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award for journalism, won the Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival, and has been nominated for both an Academy and Emmy Award.
For more than two decades, Jack has been among the media industry's leading visionaries and economic forecasters. He has advised more than 250 media companies, marketers and agencies on business transformation, revenue-development and organizational best practices.
Jack co-founded the Syracuse New Times, which remains the leading weekly in the Syracuse market. He joined the out-of-home division of Metromedia as a sales executive, moved to ABC-FM Radio as local sales manager then moved to CBS-Television Stations, where he became Director of Marketing, Business Development and Research. He was an early advocate of investment in cable TV and became Executive Vice President of Content and Revenue for UTV Cable Network before forming his own business in 1985.
In 1995, Jack was asked by President and Mrs. Clinton to lead a delegation of advertising executives to the White House Conference on Children's Educational Television.
Jack is a Board Member Emeritus of the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, served on the Advisory Board for the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University, is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and serves on the boards of several charitable organizations including the John A. Reisenbach Foundation.