[1] Jack Willis was the co-founder of Link TV[2] a Direct Broadcast Satellite channel currently in over 34 million American homes via DirecTV and the Dish Network.
He was a Senior Fellow at George Soros' Open Society Institute where he developed and directed a program on media policy.
He produced films for CBS News as well as The Human Animal series, with Phil Donahue, for NBC.
With Saul Landau, he produced the independent documentary Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang, about the government cover up of the fatal effects of the Nevada nuclear bomb tests on military personnel and civilians living downwind from the tests, won an Emmy and the George Polk Award[6] for investigative journalism.
With his wife, Mary, he wrote several highly rated network movies and co-authored the book But There Are Always Miracles.