New book from the authors of Smart Brevity: Simplify: Do 50% More With 50% Less. Out now. Order your copy
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz co-founded Axios, built the writing method its newsroom runs on, then wrote it down.
Co-founder, CEO and chairman of Axios
Jim co-founded Axios and runs it as CEO and chairman. Before that he co-founded Politico and was its CEO, after more than a decade reporting for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Just the Good Stuff, and a co-author of Smart Brevity and Simplify. His TEDx talk on writing less and saying more is the shortest version of the method.
Co-founder and executive editor of Axios
Mike co-founded Axios and oversees its editorial coverage and its flagship daily newsletters, Axios AM, Axios PM and Axios Finish Line. Before Axios he co-founded Politico, where he created Politico Playbook. He is an alumnus of Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Free Lance-Star. Vanity Fair has named him to its New Establishment list several times. He co-authored Smart Brevity and Simplify.
CEO of Axios HQ and Smart Brevity
Roy is CEO of Axios HQ and Smart Brevity, and a co-founder of Axios, where he ran company strategy and business operations. Before that he was chief revenue officer at Politico. He was executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning series Axios on HBO, and he closed the $525 million acquisition of Axios by Cox Enterprises. DCInno named him one of its 50 on Fire in marketing and advertising, and FOLIO named him a Corporate Catalyst. He co-authored Smart Brevity and Simplify.
Two books and one talk carry the method the three of them built.
The coaches who teach Smart Brevity trained inside the newsroom that invented it.