Background
Price was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended Friends Select School.
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Price was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended Friends Select School.
He attended Princeton University, graduating with honors in 1962. He subsequently graduated from Yale Law School. After graduation, he served as an officer in the United States Air Force.
Price began his media career as a summer intern at the Wall Street Journal while he attended Princeton University.
He is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Premiere Previews, joint venture partner of Time Incorporated in a new media venture. Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences from 2000 until September 2009. After his stint in the United States Air Force, Price moved to New York City, where he served in city government as Counsel To The Taxi Commission and as Counsel to the New York Council on Child Psychiatry.
From 1966 to 1970 he held a series of management positions at TIME-LIFE before becoming Director of Corporate Development of Time, Incorporated.
He left to become President of Media Networks, Incorporated. (MNI) and after the firm was sold to 3M, managed MNI as a subsidiary of the 3M Company until 1986.
In 1987 he was named Publisher of the New York Post and, subsequently, president and publisher of the National Sports Daily. He is also currently Chairman of Reporters Without Borders United States of America. He is Chairman of The Avenue Association and a Trustee of the Colbert Foundation.
He has served as an Advisor to the Governments of France and the United States on Telecommunications policy as Chairman of the Video Dial Tone Association in Washington, District of Columbia.
And as Chairman of the International Chapter of The Young Presidents Organization. Since 2012 he has chaired Media.NYC.2020, a group of media chief executives that advises the New York City Economic Development Corporation on the digital future of New York City.
He is active in the media and entertainment industry as a Board Member of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures and as Commissioner of the Latin Media & Entertainment Commission of New New York Until recently he was Chairman of the Board of Governors of Eugene Language College, a Trustee of The New School University, and a member of the Conference of University Board Chairmen.