Jack Myers (media ecologist)

Jack Myers is an American media ecologist, author, and speaker. He is the founder of MediaVillage, a media company.

Education
Myers graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University with a major in radio-television. He holds a master's degree in media ecology from New York University, where he studied under Dr. Neil Postman.

Career
Myers began his career as a marketing director at CBS in the mid-1970s. In 2010, he launched MediaVillage, that features commentaries, thought-leadership, and insights from columnists, and journalists. It incorporates The Myers Report, MediaVillage Knowledge Exchange, and AdvancingDiversity.org.

In early 90s, along with David Houle, he created Television Production Partners (TPP), a consortium of advertisers to fund television programming. In this capacity he won a George Foster Peabody Award, the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award for the documentary Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream.

He is also a lecturer at the University of Arizona and an honorary board member at the International Radio and Television Foundation.

Publications

 * Adbashing: Surviving the Attacks on Advertising (1993)
 * Virtual Worlds: Rewiring Our Emotional Future (2007)
 * Hooked Up: A New Generation’s Surprising Take on Sex, Politics and Saving the World (2012)
 * The Future of Men (2016)

Accolades
He has won the International Book Awards for Youth Issues and Women's Issues for Hooked Up: A New Generation’s Surprising Take on Sex, Politics and Saving the World, and the World Music Award. He has also received the Excellence in Education Award from the Global Forum on Education & Learning.