Fighting media's reality distortion (with Axios CEO Jim VandeHei) | Masters of Scale Rapid Response
About Jim
- Co-founder & CEO of Axios, one of the most influential modern news brands
- Founded two successful media companies; bestselling author of Just the Good Stuff
- Executive producer of Emmy Award-winning docu-news series Axios on HBO
- Chairman of Axios HQ, communications software company
- Co-authored Smart Brevity and forthcoming book Simplify
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Every day we’re inundated with news and opinion pieces about America’s hopeless division — but is this really true? Axios CEO Jim VandeHei joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to bust what he sees as myth, plus share his seemingly counterintuitive AI play. VandeHei also makes a case for why the era of business leaders speaking out on political issues may be behind us, and he weighs-in on the state of Buzzfeed, NPR, and where the future of news media is inevitably headed.
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