Jonathan Greenberg, CEO
Jonathan Greenberg, founder of Progressive Source Communications, is a public interest communications specialist, digital media executive and investigative financial journalist for such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Forbes, Money and the New Republic. On behalf of Progressive Source, he has managed web videos, strategies and sites for the ACLU, Stonyfield Farm, the Virgin Foundation, Physicians for a National Health Program, Solar Cookers’ Carbon Offset Campaign, and the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute.
Jonathan is also the founder and CEO of Tv1.com, a Web 2.0 company that offers a free cutting-edge video blogging system. He has been a web innovator since founding Gist Communications in 1995, an Internet company which competed successfully with TV Guide Online. Jonathan managed a staff of more than 70 software engineers, editors, designers and marketing professionals who built implemented and maintained custom TV listings and entertainment editorial packages reaching millions of viewers, on behalf of dozens of clients in three countries, including Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, NBC, CBS, USA Today, CNN and Hewlett Packard. Gist won the 1997 Webby Award for “Best TV” website.
From 2005 through 2006, Jonathan was vice president of Fenton Communications, where he created and managed media outreach, messaging and advertising campaigns for clients, including the two “Save Darfur” rallies in Washington and New York, and Helen Hunt’s “Faith & Feminism” Internet video and ad campaign. In December 2005, Jonathan developed and managed media outreach for Witness Against Torture’s “U.S. Christians March on Guantanamo” campaign, in which 25 activists, including Frida Berrigan, marched on Guantanamo in an attempt to visit those incarcerated there. While the activists were in Cuba, Jonathan also managed a joint press conference, at New York’s St Mark’s Church, with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
In the year following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Jonathan was appointed Policy Director for the New York City Council’s Select Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment. In this position, he directed media and public policy campaigns and was the Council’s lead analyst for federal relief programs. His work resulted in more than $250 million of federal funds being re-directed to needy businesses and constituents in the impacted area. Jonathan also worked as a strategic consultant for nonprofit organizations including managing Housing Works’ entrepreneurial ventures and Wall Street Rising’s business assistance program.
Jonathan started his media work as a Forbes magazine reporter, where he created the first Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans. After three years at Forbes and four years as a founding contributing editor at Manhattan,Inc., Jonathan completed a Masters Studies in Law fellowship at Yale Law School, graduating with honors in First Amendment law. He is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Staking A Claim: Jake Simmons and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty. In 1992, he edited Buying America Back: Economic Choices for the 1990′s, an anthology of 45 progressive solution-oriented essays. Jonathan received his B.A. in rhetoric and literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Masters Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School.