Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes is the co founder of Facebook and the editor in chief of New Republic Magazine. When Chris Hughes helped plan Facebook in his Harvard dormitory, almost all the people who shared personal information online were active on dating websites at the time. Facebook has now developed into a powerful social network with over 600 million users. Due to a desire to better connect like-minded groups, Hughes became a supporting force behind the MyBarackObama website, a campaign platform that helped elect Obama and transform the network into a political tool. At the age of 25, Hughes had already become a technology superstar in the social media industry, helping to create two of the most successful startups in modern history. Hughes has a remarkable talent for creating technologies that enable real people and communities to communicate together online, enabling some organizations to fully understand the infinite power of social networks. Not long ago, people still read print newspapers and obtained news information by watching Tom Brokaw's evening news program. Nowadays, the media environment is undergoing a complete transformation, and Chris Hughes is closely related to it and has become an important driving force. In 2004, Hughes co founded Facebook with his college roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moscowitz. It is a dominant social networking website with nearly one billion active users worldwide. A few years later, Hughes used his work experience on Facebook to design social media and online organization strategies for presidential candidate Barack Obama, and achieved astonishing success. Currently, Hughes serves as the publisher and editor in chief of New Republic Magazine, a magazine with a history of 98 years and a focus on politics and art. And he is shaping the future of this most famous and influential intellectual news magazine in the United States. He has invested in writing narrative long news magazines and is setting standards for high-quality research and analysis articles to adapt to the new media environment.