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''Politico'' (stylized in
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), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American, German-owned
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newspaper company based in
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, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally. It primarily distributes content online but also with printed newspapers, radio, and
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s. Its coverage in
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, includes the
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,
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, the
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, and the
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.
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, a German publisher, announced in August 2021 that it had agreed to buy Politico from founder
Robert Allbritton Robert Allbritton (born February 16, 1969) is the owner and founder of Capitol News Company, the parent company of Capitol Hill political newspaper and website ''Politico''. Allbritton also served as the chairman and CEO of Allbritton Communicat ...
for over $1 billion. The closing took place in late October 2021. The new owners said they would add staff, and at some point, put the publication's news content behind a
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. Axel Springer is Europe's largest newspaper publisher and had previously acquired ''
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''.


History


Origins, style, and growth

''Politico'' was founded in 2007 to focus on politics with fast-paced Internet reporting in granular detail, comparable to the sports analysis of
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or
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. John F. Harris and
Jim VandeHei James VandeHei (born February 12, 1971) is an American journalist and businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Axios and the former executive editor and co-founder of ''Politico''. Previously, he was a national political reporter at ''The Was ...
left ''
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'' to become ''Politico''s editor-in-chief and executive editor, respectively. With the financial backing of Robert L. Allbritton, the pair launched the website on January 23, 2007. Their first hire was Mike Allen, a writer for ''
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'', and Frederick J. Ryan Jr. served as its first president and chief executive officer.
Martin Tolchin Martin Tolchin (September 20, 1928 – February 17, 2022) was an American journalist and author. He was a longtime political correspondent for ''The New York Times'', and later co-founded '' The Hill'' and ''Politico''. Early life and education ...
was another member of the editorial founding team. From the beginning, journalists covering political campaigns for ''Politico'' carried a video camera to each assignment, and they were encouraged to promote their work elsewhere. By 2008, ''Politico'' received more than three million unique visits per month. In September 2008, ''
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'' reported that ''Politico'' would expand its operations following the 2008 presidential election: " ter Election Day, 'Politico''will add reporters, editors, Web engineers and other employees; expand circulation of its newspaper edition in Washington; and print more often." Between the 2008 and
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elections, ''Politico''s staff more than tripled in size. Notable additions included two political commentators,
Michael Kinsley Michael E. Kinsley (born March 9, 1951) is an American political journalist and commentator. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on ''Crossfire''. Early life and e ...
and
Joe Scarborough Charles Joseph Scarborough (; born April 9, 1963) is an American television host, attorney, political commentator, and former politician who is the co-host of '' Morning Joe'' on MSNBC with his wife Mika Brzezinski. He previously hosted ''Scarbo ...
, as opinion writers. In 2009, the web pages shortened their name from ''The Politico'' to more simply ''Politico''. In 2011, ''Politico'' began to focus more on
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and news analysis. This shift in coverage received further support in June 2013 with the hiring of Susan Glasser to oversee "opinion from prominent outside voices" and "long-form storytelling". In September 2014, Glasser was tapped to serve as ''Politico''s new editor, following the resignation of Richard Berke the previous month. VandeHei was named ''Politico''s new CEO in October 2013. Under his leadership, ''Politico'' continued to grow: in 2014 alone, it expanded revenues by 25%. By 2016, ''Politico'' had nearly 500 employees worldwide. Amidst reports of tensions, VandeHei and Allen announced that they would leave ''Politico'' after the 2016 presidential election, but left far sooner. Allbritton, then Executive Chairman and owner, was named acting CEO in Vandehei's stead. Several months after their departure, Washingtonian Magazine reported that the relationship ultimately deteriorated during a series of events including VandeHei pushing Allbritton to sell the company, and Allbritton losing faith in VandeHei's abilities as a CEO. Investment banker Patrick Steel served as CEO between 2017 and 2021. He departed the company in early 2021 after four years. Goli Sheikholeslami, who had been the CEO of
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public radio, was announced as CEO by new owner Axel Springer in January 2022 and tasked with leading operations of both Politico and Politico Europe. Dafna Linzer, who had been at MSNBC and NBC News, was named as the new executive editor in March 2022.


Politico Playbook

On June 25, 2007, Mike Allen launched Playbook, a daily early-morning email newsletter. Within a few years, the newsletter had attained a large readership amongst members of the D.C. community. By 2016, over 100,000 people—including "insiders, outsiders, lobbyists and journalists, governors, senators, presidents and would-be presidents"—read Playbook daily. Multiple commentators credit Allen and Playbook with strongly influencing the substance and tone of the rest of the national political
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. Daniel Lippman joined ''Politico'' in June 2014, in large part to assist Allen with Playbook. Upon Allen's departure in July 2016 to start
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, Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman joined Lippman to assume Playbook-writing duties. In March 2017, ''Politico'' announced the creation of a second, mid-day edition of Playbook—entitled "Playbook Power Briefing"—written by the same people who authored the morning edition. In 2017, a weekly sponsorship of Playbook cost between $50,000 and $60,000. After Palmer and Sherman left to found
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, ''Politico'' announced a new team of Playbook authors in 2021, including
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, Ryan Lizza, Tara Palmeri and Eugene Daniels. Mike Debonis, previously of the Washington Post, was hired as editor of Politico Playbook in 2022.


Politico Pro

Politico Pro, a B2B subscription service, launched in 2010. With roughly 300 reporters at its disposal, Politico Pro provides in-depth coverage of over a dozen major topic areas. The service charges subscribing businesses by licenses and topic area (verticals), with the costs in the high four figures to high six figures depending on the scope of the subscription. Despite the paywall in place, Politico Pro has a 93% subscription renewal rate, and it provides nearly half of ''Politico''s overall revenue. Access to the Politico.com, Politico Playbook, and its other newsletters remained free of charge.


''Politico Magazine''

In November 2013, ''Politico'' launched ''Politico Magazine'' (), which is published online and bimonthly in print.Kristen Hare
Politico magazine launches online
,
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(November 14, 2013).
In contrast to ''Politico''s focus on "politics and policy scoops" and breaking news, ''Politico Magazine'' focuses on "high-impact, magazine-style reporting", such as long-form journalism. The first editor of ''Politico Magazine'' was Susan Glasser, who came to the publication from ''
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'' magazine. After Glasser was promoted to become ''Politico''s editor, Garrett Graff was named editor of the magazine. He was followed by Blake Hounshell (2016–18), and Stephen Heuser (2019-2022). In September, 2022, Elizabeth Ralph was named editor of POLITICO Magazine, now solely a digital publication.


''Protocol''

In February 2020, Robert Allbritton, the then owner of ''Politico,'' launched ''Protocol'', an online tech news site focused on the "people, power and politics of tech." The site's focuses on arm how to "arm decision-makers in tech, business and public policy" with important global technology news. It operates as a separate company and with separate business and editorial management than Politico.


State editions

In September 2013, ''Politico'' acquired the online news site ''Capital New York'', which also operated separate departments covering Florida and New Jersey. In April 2015, ''Politico'' announced its intention to rebrand the state feeds with the ''Politico'' name (''Politico Florida'', ''Politico New Jersey'', and ''Politico New York'') to expand its coverage of state politics. In September 2018, ''Politico'' announced it would launch ''Politico California Pro''.


Global expansion

In September 2014, ''Politico'' formed a joint venture with German publisher
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to launch its European edition, based in
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. In December 2014, the joint venture announced its acquisition of Development Institute International, a leading French events content provider, and '' European Voice'', a European political newspaper, to be re-launched under the ''Politico'' brand. ''
Politico Europe ''Politico Europe'' (stylized as ''POLITICO Europe'') is the European edition of the German-owned news organization ''Politico'' reporting on political affairs of the European Union. Its headquarters are located in Brussels with additional offices ...
'' debuted in print on April 23, 2015. Politico.eu, the publication's Brussels-based European operation, was formally launched in 2015. In early 2016, it had about 50 editorial employees and two dozen business employees. A third-party survey published at the time ranked Politico.eu as most widely read news organization among 249 Brussels "influencers" surveyed, although the same panel found it less influential than ''
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''. Stephen Brown, who was named editor-in-chief of ''Politico Europe'' in September 2019, died suddenly of a heart attack on March 18, 2021. Jamil Anderlini, previously Asia Editor of the Financial Times, was named Editor-in-Chief of Politico Europe in July, 2021.


Focus on investigations

Under Glasser and successor Carrie Budoff Brown, ''Politico'' expanded its focus on investigating Washington policymakers, leading to multiple resignations''.'' A series of stories by Sherman and Palmer in 2015 "helped break open the scandal that forced the resignation of Representative
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of Illinois in 2015," according to the ''New York Times.'' Reporter Marianne Levine in 2017 "helped bring down Trump’s Labor Secretary pick," Andy Puzder, after breaking the story that Puzder's ex-wife had accused him of spousal abuse, according to Poynter. Puzder withdrew his nomination after the story. In September 2017, reporters Rachana Pradhan and Dan Diamond authored a "bombshell" investigation of how President
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's health secretary, Tom Price, was flying on charter jets paid for by taxpayers, according to the ''Washington Post''. Price resigned after the stories. The "indispensable" stories published by ''Politico'' under Budoff Brown in 2017 helped it "get its groove back," according to the ''Washingtonian's'' Andrew Beaujon. ''Politico'' reporter Alex Thompson in February 2022 broke the "bombshell report" of how
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, President Joe Biden's science adviser, had been "demeaning" colleagues in the office, according to ''Endpoints News''. Lander resigned after the story.


Expansion

Politico acquired E&E News in December 2020 to expand its coverage of the energy and environmental sectors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.


Acquisition by Axel Springer

In October 2021, the large German publishing and media firm
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announced that it had completed the acquisition of ''Politico'' for over $1 billion. Axel Springer's Chief Executive
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said that Politico staff would need to adhere to Axel Springer's principles, including support for a united Europe, Israel's right to exist and a free-market economy, and that staff who disagree with the principles "should not work for Axel Springer, very clearly". Axel Springer said that they would not require ''Politico'' employees to sign documents in support of a transatlantic alliance or Israel, though this policy is enforced at German newspaper ''
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'', another Axel Springer subsidiary.


Supreme Court leak

On May 2, 2022, ''Politico'' obtained and released a 98-page draft document indicating that the
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was poised to strike down the landmark ''
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'' decision that legalized abortion nationwide, as well as '' Planned Parenthood v. Casey'', in its ruling on ''
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''. Chief Justice
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directed the
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to conduct an investigation into the source of the
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. The story became the most-trafficked in the publisher's history, with 11 million views by May 6. ''Politicos first tweet on the report gained more than triple the impressions it normally saw an entire month on Twitter.


Collaboration with ''Welt'' on COVID-19 global response criticisms

In September 2022 ''Politico'' published an expose' critical of NGO leadership at the helm of the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic response, written in cooperation with the German newspaper ''Welt.'' Criticisms included the interconnectivity of the non-profits with Bill Gates, as well as his personal lack of formal credentials in medicine. Additionally, the article noted the lack of public accountability of the NGO's, their haste to put forward their selected vaccine candidates while public debate was yet unfinished, possible conflicts of interest due to employment of non-profit staff in influential health regulatory bodies, and the massively funded lobbying arm of the consortium. Further censure was given due to lack of consultation with other well-credentialed international not-for-profit groups, and to governments for allowing themselves to be lobbied and yield leadership.


Controversies

''Politico'' editor Michael Hirsh resigned in November 2016 after publishing the home address of
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on
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. ''Politico Playbook'', in January 2022, incorrectly reported that
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justice
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had been seen having dinner with leading Democrats, after Sotomayor earlier having claimed that she could not appear in person for oral arguments at the court. It later turned out that ''Politico'' had mistaken
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's wife
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for Sotomayor, who had never been at the dinner, and ''Politico'' did not verify the report.


Accusations of antisemitism

''Politico Magazine'' published an article in April 2017 purporting to show long-term links among U.S. President
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, Russian President
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, and the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty
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. The article was widely condemned, with the head of the
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,
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, saying that it "evokes age-old myths about Jews". In March 2019, ''Politico'' was again accused of
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when it published an article depicting imagery of presidential candidate U.S. Senator
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next to money trees. Sanders, one of two
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ish candidates for the 2020 U.S. presidential election, was targeted for the amount of wealth he accumulated over his lifetime. ''Politico'' staff writer Michael Kruse wrote the article detailing the senator's wealth, writing that Sanders "might still be cheap", according to one of the senator's friends, "but he's sure not poor", which was criticized as combining two
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s (Jews are cheap; Jews are rich). ''Politico'' s official Twitter account used the quote to share the story; the tweet was later deleted.


Donald Trump

On January 14, 2021, conservative commentator
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was featured as a guest writer for ''Politico'''s Playbook newsletter, where he defended Republicans in the
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who opposed the second impeachment of Donald Trump. The newsletter drew backlash from ''Politico'' staffers. Matthew Kaminski, editor in chief of ''Politico'', declined to apologize and defended the decision to publish the article, stating that, "We're not going to back away from having published something because some people think it was a mistake to do so", and that the newspaper "stands by every word" in the article. According to ''
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'', more than 100 ''Politico'' staffers signed onto a letter to publisher
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criticizing ''Politico's'' decision to feature Shapiro's article and the response from Kaminski.
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pro-Trump voters and anti-
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voters with
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and sponsored or branded content on ''Politico''.


Distribution and content

As of 2017, ''Politico'' claimed to average 26 million unique visitors a month to its American website, and more than 1.5 million unique visitors to its European site. According to a 2020 Knight Foundation study, ''Politico'' is generally read by a
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to
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audience. Following the acquisition of the company by
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reported that ''Politico'' would enforce a policy on employees requiring them to acknowledge Israel's right to exist. The print newspaper had a circulation of approximately 32,000 in 2009, distributed free in Washington, D.C. and Manhattan. The newspaper prints up to five issues a week while Congress is in session and sometimes publishes one issue a week when Congress is in recess. It carries advertising, including full-page ads from trade associations and a large help-wanted section listing Washington political jobs.


Influence

Multiple commentators have credited ''Politico''s original organizational philosophy—namely, prioritizing scoops and publishing large numbers of stories—with forcing other, more-established publications to make a number of changes, such as increasing their pace of production and changing their tone. Other outlets, including ''
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'' and ''
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'', were started by ''Politico'' employees.


Awards and recognition

''Politico'' won a
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in 2012, for
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's editorial cartoons. ''Politico'' also has won three
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, the first in 2014 for
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's investigation of the rise of the
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, the second in 2019 for Helena Bottemiller Evich's investigation of the Trump administration's efforts to bury its
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plans, and the third in 2020 for Diamond's investigation of political interference in the U.S. federal government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.


See also

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