# Jacob Cohen Donnelly

> Jacob Cohen Donnelly is the founder of A Media Operator, a subscription publication, podcast, and conference for the people who run digital media companies. He started it in August 2019 as a weekend Substack while holding down full-time roles at CoinDesk and then Morning Brew, where he became Publisher. In 2024 he went all-in, rebuilt AMO into a five-person media business doing roughly $1 million in revenue, and turned the annual AMO Summit into the room media executives consider essential to be inside.

- **Role:** Founder of A Media Operator
- **Organizations:** A Media Operator, Morning Brew, CoinDesk, ThomasNet
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts, History / Political Science, Mount Saint Mary College
- **Known for:** Founded and scaled A Media Operator from a solo weekend newsletter into a five-person media business doing about $1M in revenue, Created the AMO Summit, a single-track NYC conference that doubled by year three and draws senior media operators, Was Publisher at Morning Brew and an early leader of its B2B media division

## Career timeline

- **2010s** — Business analyst at ThomasNet
- **2019-2020** — Managing Director of Digital Revenue, Audience & Growth at CoinDesk
- **2019** — Launched A Media Operator newsletter on Substack (August)
- **2020-2022** — General Manager of B2B at Morning Brew, leading Retail Brew, Marketing Brew and Emerging Tech Brew
- **2022** — Became Publisher at Morning Brew
- **2023** — Launched the AMO Summit in October with 130 attendees
- **2024** — Left Morning Brew to run A Media Operator full time; hired reporter Christiana Sciaudone; AMO turned five
- **2025** — Rebuilt the site into a full media company (AMO 2.0); business reached roughly $1M in revenue

## Achievements

- Founded and scaled A Media Operator from a solo weekend newsletter into a five-person media business doing about $1M in revenue
- Created the AMO Summit, a single-track NYC conference that doubled by year three and draws senior media operators
- Was Publisher at Morning Brew and an early leader of its B2B media division
- Grew a team from four to sixty-five people during his tenure at Morning Brew
- Built a recognized authoritative voice and reference point for the digital media industry through twice-weekly analysis

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Rebuilt A Media Operator into a full media company (AMO 2.0) with a website, newsletter, podcast and events.
- **2025-08** — Told the Alliance for Audited Media that 'the era of free traffic is over.'
- **2026-10** — AMO Summit scheduled for October 20-21, 2026 in New York.

## Links

- Website: https://www.amediaoperator.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-cohen-donnelly-08aa3a8/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/JayCoDon
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jaycodon.bsky.social

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Last updated: 2026-06-03