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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Ep. 61 - Isaac Lee

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

News

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Isaac Lee, chief news and digital officer of Univision News and CEO of Fusion, chats with David about his grandfather fighting the Nazis and later moving to Colombia, the death threats Lee received as editor in chief of one of Colombia's leading investigative magazines, how millennials consume news today, and his concerns about Donald Trump. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

0:12.5

host, David Axelrod.

0:21.7

I've met a lot of interesting people in 40 years in politics and journalism, but Isaac

0:26.0

Rises to the top of the list.

0:28.4

Isaac, the son of Jewish immigrants who settled in Columbia, was a crusading journalist

0:34.0

in his early 20s and helped topple corrupt government officials for their relationship

0:40.6

with drug cartels there.

0:42.7

He led major publications before he was 30 in that country and throughout Latin America,

0:48.9

started some of his own.

0:50.3

And today is the chief of news and digital at Univision, where he's led a series of award-winning

0:57.9

investigations, documentaries, and transformed the face of that news operation.

1:04.0

He also was the founder of With Univision of Fusion, which is a new digital network and

1:12.9

cable network that's aimed at cross-cultural millennials.

1:17.6

So I don't know anybody who thinks more about journalism, about politics, about media,

1:23.6

and the future than Isaac.

1:25.8

And we sat down the other day at the Institute of Politics, where he's a member of the Senior

1:29.9

Advisory Board to talk about it.

1:48.6

Isaac, leave my friend and board member of the Institute of Politics, chief of the

1:56.5

News and Digital Operations for Univision.

2:00.1

We've been friends for a long time, but I've never really had a conversation with you about

2:06.3

your own journey.

2:09.0

So I wanted to just talk about that a little bit before we talk about more contemporary

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