Jim VandeHei is an innovator in digital political journalism. Currently the co-founder and CEO of Axios, a new political media company, and the former co-founder and CEO of Politico, he strives to fix media by rejecting clickbait and banner ads in favor of brevity, clarity, and useful content on trends in business, media, and politics for engaged readers. In his time leading Politico, Jim VandeHei oversaw the company's innovative high-growth, high-impact model, regularly appeared as a political analyst on shows like MSNBC's "Morning Joe", co-moderated 2 presidential debates in 2008, and was named 2015 Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation. Before starting Politico in 2006, Jim VandeHei worked as a national political reporter and White House reporter for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, where he was the first to break the story that Republicans were evaluating the possibility of impeaching President Bill Clinton.
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