The Axis of Weaponization: John Solomon speech

The Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley welcomed

John Solomon

The Axis of Weaponization: Democrats, Media, and the Bureaucrats

John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and digital media entrepreneur who serves as Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News. Before founding Just the News, Solomon played key reporting and executive roles at some of America’s most important journalism institutions, such as The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Newsweek, The Daily Beast and The Hill.

Solomon's executive experience includes helping to build the successful Hill.TV video platform as the newspapers executive vice president and serving as Editor and Vice President for Content and Business Development at The Washington Times, where he oversaw the transformation of the company’s content, audience and revenue strategies. Under his leadership, the Times eliminated $25 million in annual losses, doubled both revenue and Web traffic and posted its first monthly profit in the newspaper’s three-decade history. He also served as the assistant bureau chief for AP's Washington bureau in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Beyond his executive roles, Solomon has continued his role as one of the country’s most impactful investigative reporters, breaking stories that have resonated from the campaign trail to the White House and across the globe.

He and his teams have won dozens of awards during three decades as a professional journalist, including a Robert F. Kennedy Excellence in Journalism Award, and three Society of Professional Journalists Awards for Investigative Reporting for his projects that exposed the FBI lab’s reliance on bogus science to wrongfully convict Americans, the VA’s efforts to use soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan as guinea pigs in drug experiments and the Clinton Foundation's secret slush fund in Sweden. During his two tours of duty as Times’ Editor, the newspaper twice finished as a Pulitzer finalist.