First in Future: Chief Content Officer with UNC-TV and Public Media North Carolina Travis Mitchell

Summary:  How do you keep people’s attention in a discarded world? There is the “addiction” model of telling people what they want to know, watch or listen, and then offer them a series of escalating rewards. A different approach is to ask people what they really care about and believe in or are curious about and then provide a variety of ways to share it with them. That is what our First in Future guest this week, Travis Mitchell, Chief Content Officer with UNC-TV and Public Media North Carolina, thinks. Listen as he shares what he believes makes our state special; which is our willingness to come together to work out really tough issues.

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