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John Solomon
'Just the News' CEO & Editor-in-Chief

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.

Before joining the Times, Solomon worked for two decades at The Associated Press, where he became one of the youngest news editor in the cooperative’s history at age 22 and rose to become the No. 2 executive in its Washington bureau. His award-winning investigative stories won wide acclaim for exposing what the U.S. government knew about terrorism threats prior to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He also fought winning legal battles to the stop the Justice Department and the FBI from trying to unmask his sources. On the business side, Mr. Solomon also is credited with helping the wire service develop some of its first Web-centric products, including AP Elections Online, AP Census Online and AP Video Online, all which opened a new era of business opportunity for a wire service that had been print- centric. After retiring from AP, Solomon spent a year as the lead national investigative reporter for The Washington Post, where he produced dozens of front-page stories and supervised the paper’s first-ever joint investigative project with 60 Minutes, a project that won SPJ’s highest TV honor for investigative reporting. He also has done stints as a senior editor at Newsweek/Daily Beast and the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity. In 2011, he authored a widely acclaimed book documenting how New York City prosecutors abandoned a hotel chambermaid and her claim of sexual assault despite overwhelming police evidence that French leader Dominique Strauss Kahn was involved.

John Stubbins
Host, "Indivisible"

John Michael Stubbins is an Actor, Voice Talent (with over 600 character voices in his repertoire), Show Host, Writer & Producer. John was born in Little Rock, Arkansas but grew up mostly in Columbus, Ohio. After high school, John joined the United States Air Force, then worked in corporate America for several years while working on his degree in Accounting & Marketing.

In 1998, a chance invitation to audition at The Actors Institute (TAI) in New York City soon became a life changing experience. John excelled in the audition and was offered a scholarship to study the Mastery of Acting full time at TAI. This completely altered John’s career course. After graduating from TAI, John quickly made his first four appearances in film (“Brooklyn Sonnet”, “Traffic”, “Blind Turn”) and was then offered a two-part mini-series on ABC. Rehearsals were to begin at 7pm on the evening of what we now know as 9/11. Needless to say, those rehearsals never took place that day, the project was cancelled and John’s career quickly derailed from the momentum it had going.

John spent the next eight years working to recover from the blow of 9/11. With hard work, he recovered nicely. He landed numerous commercials with his repertoire of over 600-character voices, including Wendy’s frosty’s. He went on to become Lieutenant Frank Morelli in the highly acclaimed series “Aidan 5”, did a one man show, plus speaking events as Coach Woody Hayes. John also called play by play for FOX/BTN college baseball before moving back to film in the final installment of the Batman trilogy, “The Dark Knight Rises”.

It was 2011 when John was introduced to Mark Koch. A family member felt strongly that they would be a great fit to work together as a team in film. Mark had already produced “Lost in Space”, “Black Dog”, “The Perfect Game”, “Running the Sahara” and worked with Mel Gibson on P&A for “The Passion of the Christ”. In February 2017, Mark asked John to become his Vice President at Prelude Publishing. In 2019, Mark made John, Sr. VP of Development for Prelude Pictures.

March 2020, he was challenged by David Padrusch to put together a pilot for a new show. Over 113 interviews later, “INDIVISIBLE with John Stubbins” is growing very rapidly, building a strong following on multiple social media platforms and the show is now moving to television.

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