Jim VandeHei

Co-Founder and Executive Editor of POLITICO

Jim VandeHei is co-founder and executive editor of POLITICO, the highly influential political web site and newspaper that Washingtonian magazine hailed as a "media phenomenon." VandeHei, along with co-founder John Harris, left the Washington Post in 2006 to create the all-politics-all-the-time site, and the company has been a smashing success ever since. More than three million unique readers visit the site each month, and more than 30,000 of the nation's political leaders read its Washington-based newspaper. Drawing on 15 years of experience in Washington journalism, VandeHei directs POLITICO's editorial content and oversees its business strategy ­ amalgamating old media values of fairness and accuracy with the speed and immediacy of new technologies.