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Jim VandeHei

👤 Speaker
675 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Everybody seems to be growing.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Viewership in TV seems to be growing.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Website traffic's going through the roof for everybody.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Is this a moment or is this the post?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

And at that point is when they start to make all these investments in overseas and let's have a bureau in South Korea and London and losing it.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Really?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

But is that what the post-consumer wants?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Is that what somebody in Korea wants?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Like that's where you started to probably see a divorce between kind of their success and the reality around them.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Yeah, I mean I think there's a couple of things.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

I think it didn't know what it was.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Like that's what I'm always looking for in companies is like do you have a sense of who you are?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Do you know what you need to do every day?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

The term I always use with our staff jokingly is like we got to know every day who's asked.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

We got to kick, right?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

We got to know exactly how we win.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

And the Post seemed to lose its sense of self, right?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Is it a technology company because we have Bezos backing us?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Are we a Washington company because we're in Washington?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News

Are we now an international brand because we've started to expand overseas?