Jordan Wertlieb was promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of Hearst in May 2023. Previously he was a senior vice president of Hearst and president of Hearst Television since 2013. He is also a member of the Hearst board of directors.
Wertlieb moved to the company’s New York City headquarters in January 2011 as an executive vice president of Hearst Television. He held management oversight responsibility for Hearst Television’s stations, digital properties and two radio stations across 26 U.S. markets. During this time Hearst Television expanded substantially in original television and digital programming and its stations earned numerous regional and national journalism and community-service honors. Hearst Television was recognized in 2022 by the Ad Council with a Catalyst Award for outstanding support of Ad Council public service campaigns, and by Broadcasting & Cable magazine in 2019 as Station Group of the Year and in 2022 as Multiplatform Broadcaster of the Year.
Wertlieb is a past chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters’ (NAB) joint board of directors and of its television board. He currently serves on the board of the NAB Leadership Foundation. He is a member of the A+E Networks board and serves as a vice chair of the Broadcasters Foundation of America board. He is a past president-chairman of the NBC affiliates board.
Wertlieb began his television career in 1986 as a research analyst at New York-based Katz Communications where he later became a sales account executive representing various Hearst television stations among other clients.
In 1993, Wertlieb joined Hearst’s WCVB-TV, Boston, eventually becoming local sales manager. In 1999, he was promoted to general sales manager of WBAL-TV, Hearst Television’s NBC affiliate in Baltimore, where, in 2005, he became the station’s president and general manager. During his tenure there, the station further solidified its position as Baltimore’s No. 1 TV station and earned many of television journalism’s highest honors.
In March 2024, Wertlieb was awarded the Golden Mic Award by the Broadcasters Foundation of America, whose mission is to improve the quality of life for men and women in the radio and television broadcast profession who find themselves in acute need. In 2023, he was recognized with the First Amendment Service Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA); the award honors professionals in local or network news who work in an off-air, management capacity. In 2021, Wertlieb was recognized by the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) with its Lew Klein Award for Leadership and by the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) for lifetime achievement during the LABF's Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts awards ceremony. In 2018, he was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, preceded by his induction into the Maryland D.C. Delaware Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2015.
Wertlieb holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a graduate of the NAB Broadcast Leadership Training program and the Hearst Management Institute.

Jordan Wertlieb
Executive Vice President
Chief Operating Officer, Hearst

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Ethan Mollick
Innovation Expert & Artificial IntelligenceThought Leader
Professor of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School

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Lilach Mollick
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Ted Niedermayer
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Eric Leach
Product Strategy & Leadership Expert, CEO – What/Why Consulting