Our mission

Axios gets you smarter, faster on what matters.

Our manifesto

Axios’ three co-founders — Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz — launched the company in January 2017 based on this shared belief: Media is broken, and too often a scam.

• Stories are too long or too boring. Websites are a maddening mess.
• The audience and the advertisers alike are too often afterthoughts. Readers get duped by headlines that don't deliver and are distracted by pop-up nonsense or unworthy clicks. Advertisers don't get the quality attention they deserve.

Can you imagine Ford being obsessed with whether the engineers love the howl and design of the F-150 engine, instead of simply delivering an awesome truck people want to drive? Never. But that's what digital media companies too often do.

• They produce journalism the way journalists want to produce it, often long-winded pieces that take too long to get to the point.
• And they design their products to maximize short-term buzz or revenue — not to deliver the best experience possible.

This is why we’ve engineered Axios around a simple proposition — deliver the clearest, smartest, most efficient and trustworthy experience for audience and advertisers alike.

After all, people face a growing challenge to keep pace with changes unfolding before them.

• Politics, business, culture, science and technology are in constant collision, creating new conflicts, new industries, new opportunities and new challenges.
• The root of these changes is the awesome — and accelerating — speed and power of technology, allowing machines to often move faster than mankind.

‍Some of the big trends that drive our coverage:

• Robotics, machine learning and AI will upend vast swaths of our lives.
• China’s influence is real and growing.
• Human activity is posing threats to Earth’s climate.
• Demographics show we are becoming an even more diverse nation, bringing both challenges and opportunities.
• The U.S. government faces mounting debt, an aging population and the need to adapt to new technologies and threats faster.
• America’s capitalistic system brims with economic possibilities but is stacked to favor the powerful and rich, exacerbating inequalities that need to be addressed.

We cover this clinically, not ideologically.

• We don’t have an editorial page and we don’t pick sides with partisan opinion. Our view: There is enough noise and our job is to sort through this.
• Axios employees refrain from taking partisan positions or sides on social media and in public forums. It’s one small but worthy step we can take to gain and keep trust.
• We believe truth and facts exist and must be highlighted, repeated, defended and cherished in our journalism.