Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,

with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.

We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.

So search for rapid response in your podcast player and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes.

I'll see you on the other side.

Stop getting news on social media. Stop sharing things that you've never read.

Stop reading something if a friend sent it to you and you don't know what the source of it is.

Maybe just stop consuming altogether and go hang out with your kids, right?

There's a lot of healthy things that you can do and then like try to find some sources of

news and information that you think are trying to get to the

closest approximation of the truth and then you're going to have a pretty healthy media diet.

That's the co-founder and CEO of Axios Jim Van dehi.

I wanted to talk to Jim today because he recently co-authored an essay that stopped me in my tracks.

The piece made a strong case for why the U.S. may not be as divided as we think.

I was also eager to ask Jim about Axios' seemingly counterintuitive AI play and why media businesses like Buzzfeed

NPR and Google find themselves in hot water. True to his style of so-called smart

brevity, Jim is knowledgeable, accessible, and concise.

This is rapid response.

Let's Erica Flint. VP of alliances and audience development at Wait What,

the company behind Masters of Scale.

My day-to-day consists of non-stop communication

not only with my immediate team but with our current partner relationships and with incoming leads

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