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Axios C-Suite: A look at Jim VandeHei's media diet
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I'm ruthless about my information consumption time — filtering in smart content, filtering out dumb or mediocre stuff.
- I also have the perspective of having hired, fired or worked alongside many of today's most talented journalists as the CEO of Axios and Politico, and as a White House/political reporter for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal before that.
So if you want to read beyond Axios, which I truly believe is the smartest collection of subject matter experts ever assembled, here's a partial list of people I find vital to pay attention to:
- The New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on President Trump. Most political reporters write the same stuff with the same sources. They don't.
- The Journal's Greg Ip on economic trends. (You can click "follow" next to his byline to get email alerts when he writes.)
- Ian Bremmer's Monday GZERO newsletter on geopolitics.
- Derek Thompson, both his Substack and "Plain English" podcast, for a read on big social and AI trends.
- The "All-In" podcast takes on AI, the tech biz and investment — but not its political analysis.
- Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway's "Pivot" podcast for a tech-skeptical take.
- The Times' Ezra Klein and his eponymous podcast for left-of-center analysis.
- The Times' Ross Douthat and his "Interesting Times" podcast for center-right analysis.
- The Journal's Lingling Wei on U.S.-China relations. (Her weekly WSJ China newsletter is more analytical than her stories.)
- Peter Diamandis' "Moonshots" podcast for an AI utopian take.
- Mel Robbins' podcast for motivation and everyday personal development.
- Steven Bartlett's "The Diary of a CEO" podcast, though it's guest-dependent.
- Bloomberg's "Odd Lots" podcast from Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal for micro-business oddities.
- Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan, especially the top half of the free Punchbowl News AM newsletter, for congressional leadership.
- Jessica Lessin's The Information and its AM newsletter for tech biz news.
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