Meth starts Opinioned, an op-ed firm

Jake Meth

Jake Meth has founded Opinioned, an op-ed writing and strategy firm for people with big ideas.

He spent five years editing Fortune magazine’s commentary section, and after that worked with executives to write and publish opinion pieces with The Expert Press.

Over this time, he realized he could use his skills to help leaders publish their op-eds in the media.

Before Fortune, Meth was assistant director of foreign affairs at the Council of Foreign Relations. Prior to that, he was a freelance journalist covering the Arab Spring for MSNBC, World Politics Review, The Forward, and Times of India, as well as a web editor and staff reporter at Egypt Independent.

He has a BA in international studies from Johns Hopkins where he was a Woodrow Wilson Research Fellow.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.