95. Designing a Brighter (& Equal) Future.
Jack Myers
June 7, 2018
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Today we’re speaking to author and MediaVillage founder Jack Myers about his groundbreaking career as a media ecologist. During the conversation, Jack breaks down his company’s founding principles, unpacks his content selection process, and sheds light on what he thinks is missing from the media industry at large. We also talk about his new book The Future of Men, and examine the masculinity crisis simmering within the #MeToo movement and society itself.
Topics include:
Jack’s thoughts on the future of media, automation, and machine learning
How to run a media company in a new way
Focusing on innovative articles and knowledge building
The eleven areas of content priority (and how to master them)
Brand safety in light of recent developments in the industry
Jack’s actions within the women’s rights movement
Jack Myers is the nation’s leading Media Ecologist, an Academy and Emmy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, author of four books, executive producer of GE Focus Forward Films, and winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Disruption Award. His honors include the George Foster Peabody Award, International Book Awards for Youth Issues and Women’s Issues, and a World Music Award. Prior to launching MediaVillage in the heart of the 2009 economic collapse, he studied and chronicled the business of media, advertising, marketing and entertainment for four decades, building an unequaled record of forecasting new technologies and their impact on culture, society, and business. Jack considers himself a disruptor who has developed, tested, and implemented a dozen innovative business models as an employee, collaborator, and partner with companies as diverse as General Motors, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Aegis Group, ABC Radio, CBS-TV, Turner, and AT&T.
As a futurist, Jack is a sought-after speaker on the technology-led transformation of business, culture, society, and relationships. His 2016 book and TEDWomen Talk on The Future of Men anticipated the #MeToo movement and shift in gender politics. MediaVillage hosts and manages more than 60 corporate thought-leadership sites, and is where the media and advertising industry gathers online for knowledge on transformative innovation, leadership, and growth. Jack’s non-profit Jacaranda Foundation underwrites and supports several industry diversity and inclusion initiatives under the Jack Myers Knowledge Exchange brand.
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