Executive Producer, GovExec TV, GovExec

George Jackson serves as Executive Producer & Host of GovExec TV, the video arm of the largest and most influential media company in the public sector marketplace. He launched GovExec TV in 2021 and built it into a multi-million dollar business, receiving GovExec’s first annual Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, a 2024 “B2B Media Rising Star Award” from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), and a 2024 “Telly Award” for the TV series AI and the Public Sector.

Previously, George produced Capital Insider at WJLA-TV, where he won an Emmy award in 2012. One year later, he developed and recorded the pilot episode of Government Matters, a program about the business of government, which debuted as a weekly show on Sunday, August 4, 2013. He led the show through September 2020, expanded its reach to a daily worldwide audience, and produced its first feature-length documentary, The Dawn of Generation AI.

George’s roots lay in TV, journalism, and storytelling. He spent the first five years of his professional career at WJHL-TV in Johnson City, Tenn., where he began as an overnight producer and then became the lead on-air reporter for the station’s 11 p.m. newscast. He covered and investigated the earnings of two non-profit hospital systems, felony charges filed against a local sheriff, predatory paving companies, a health benefits backlog for local veterans, and a series of cold case murder investigations. He received an honorable mention for Best TV Reporter in the 2011 Tennessee AP Broadcast awards and won a Best Investigative Reporting award from Media General in 2010.

George graduated from The Ohio State University in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in English. In 2006, he earned his master’s in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.

George is from Toledo, Ohio. He lives with his wife, twin daughters, and a pack of rescue dogs in Northern Virginia.