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Moving Past Clickbait: A New Phase for Political Journalism in the Golden Age of Content Creation

The rise of the internet has fundamentally changed journalism. From a monetary perspective, all that matters is web traffic and when flashy headlines can seem to attract viral amounts of clicks and quality content is expensive, it's no wonder clickbait has exponentially increased in the past few years. In this talk, Jim VandeHei, co-founder of Axios and Politico, will argue that this model is proving not to be sustainable and will walk us through a new content revolution for journalism, one where elegant efficiency and high quality content create value.

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.

Date: October 19th, 2017

Time: 6:00 P.M. (see below for more details about admission)

Location: North Gate Hall Library, UC Berkeley



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