Ben Reininga is Vice President of Audio and Video at Politico, leading teams in the U.S. and Europe to expand the organization’s journalism to new audiences. He previously served as a Nieman Berkman-Klein Fellow at Harvard, where he focused on the rise of creator-journalists on social platforms. At Shorenstein, he will continue this work by investigating the storytelling modes and production aesthetics that build trust and engagement for news in the creator economy, and how legacy organizations can adapt responsibly.