Media
Guest, host, commentator, and interview subject for producers covering AI, governance, media power, agriculture, and systems risk.
For producers, editors, and hosts
Jesse has more than three decades of experience as a media host, guest, interviewer, columnist, commentator, and moderator. He is strong live, comfortable in long-form conversation, and useful when a segment needs both intellectual range and conversational momentum.
He is available for podcasts, radio, television, documentary interviews, recurring commentary, panels, and hosted conversations on AI, governance, media power, public trust, disinformation, agriculture, platforms, and systems change.
Featured recent appearance
There is only one Jesse Hirsh
Chatter That Matters, April 16, 2026. A 55-minute conversation on authority, platform power, education, farming, and Jesse's work at the intersection of agriculture, media, technology, and culture.
Book Jesse as a guest
Jesse works well when the subject is consequential and the format rewards clarity, candour, and synthesis. He can help audiences understand what is structurally changing, what is hype, what institutions are missing, and what questions leaders should be asking next.
Useful formats include live hits, long-form podcast interviews, panel segments, documentary interviews, expert explainers, recurring commentary, and pre-recorded conversations for organizations that need a host who can carry complexity without flattening it.
Jesse as host
- The Future Herd — collaborative leadership and the future of food.
- Metaviews to the Future — political economy, technology, and culture.
- MyFM Ontario — recurring techxpert across MyFM stations in Ontario.
- Moderated conversations and executive sessions — hosted discussions for institutions that need more than a panel.
Current media topics
- AI capability claims, governance tradeoffs, and policy implications.
- Disinformation, influence operations, and public trust dynamics.
- Institutional legitimacy and the future of authority.
- Platform decline, media fragmentation, and AI-mediated information systems.
- Agriculture, food systems, technology adoption, and rural policy.
- Agentic computing and the governance of autonomous systems.
Selected appearances
- There is only one Jesse Hirsh — Chatter That Matters, April 2026
- Canadian Cybersecurity and Fighting a Digital War — Elbows Up podcast, March 2025
- An Issue Worth Torching Your Job Over — Canadaland, 2023
- Does Rural Canada Have a Radicalization Problem? — CBC Daybreak South
- Margin of Error: AI, Polling and Elections — TVO Original documentary, 2020
- Canadian Elections Can't Side-Step Social Media Influence — Centre for International Governance Innovation