Rapid Response: Fighting media's reality distortion, w/Axios CEO Jim VandeHei
Masters of Scale25 Apr 2024

Rapid Response: Fighting media's reality distortion, w/Axios CEO Jim VandeHei

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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