From a Michael Schaffer media column on politico.com headlined “Jim VandeHei’s Surreal Wellness Evolution”:
Jim VandeHei has been a hyper-driven political reporter and editor who peppered his charges with 5 a.m. bullets about missed stories and shoddy headlines, a Beltway journalism disrupter starting in the Wild West days of digital media who preached “winning the morning,” and the cofounder of two media companies (including this one) that have sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.
But is his actual true calling as a lifestyle guru?