The mantra of 'move fast and break things' defined the last wave of innovation in media. Fuelled by venture capital and a Silicon Valley ethos, many digital news companies were built for a speed and s...
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Jennifer Brandel
co-founder and CEO Hearken
Jennifer Brandel is the CEO and co-founder of Hearken. She began her career in journalism reporting for outlets including NPR, CBC, WBEZ, The New York Times and Vice, picking up awards along the way. In 2012 Brandel founded the groundbreaking audience-first series, WBEZ's Curious City, and is spreading this responsive journalism model around the world via Hearken. Her company participated in the Matter VC accelerator in San Francisco and took home the prize for "Best Bootstrap Company" at SXSW in 2016. Brandel received the 2016 Media Changemaker Prize from the Center for Collaborative Journalism.
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