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Politico
''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007. It covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally, with publications dedicated to politics in the U.S., European Union, United Kingdom, and Canada, among others. Primarily providing distributed news, analysis and opinion online, it also produces printed newspapers, radio, and podcasts. Its coverage focuses on topics such as the federal government, lobbying and the media. Ideologically, ''Politicos coverage has been described as centrist on American politics and Atlanticist on international politics. In 2021, ''Politico'' was acquired for reportedly over US$1 billion by Axel Springer SE, a German news publisher and media company. Axel Springer is Europe's largest newspaper publisher and had previously acquired '' Business Insider''. Unlike employees of its ...
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Axel Springer SE
Axel Springer SE () is a European multinational corporation, multinational mass media, mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany. The company offers printing and publishing of advertisements, digital classifieds portfolio, marketing models and related services. Axel Springer's operations are segmented into News Media, Classifieds Media, and Marketing Media. The company is organized as a (SE) publishing house and is one of the largest mass media publishers in the European Union, with numerous multimedia news brands, such as ''Bild'', ', ', and the US political news site ''Politico'', which Axel Springer acquired in 2021. The company generated total revenues of about €3.93 billion and an Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, EBITDA increase of 12.8% in the first half of 2023. Following US private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, KKR's majority-stake acquisition in 2020, Axel Springer’s revenues have increased by a total of approxima ...
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Michael Allen (journalist)
Michael Allen (born June 21, 1964) is an American political journalist. He is the co-founder and executive editor of '' Axios'' and the former chief political reporter for ''Politico''. While at ''Politico'', he wrote the daily ''Playbook''; in April 2010, in reference to his frequent correspondence with White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer, ''The New York Times'' called him "The Man The White House Wakes Up To." Prior to joining ''Politico'' for its 2007 launch, he worked at numerous other publications, including ''The New York Times'' and ''Time''. ''The New York Times'' reported that Allen would no longer be writing the Playbook after July 11, 2016. The writing was taken over by ''Politico'' staffers Daniel Lippman, Anna Palmer, and Jake Sherman. Early life Allen grew up in Orange County, California. His father was conservative writer Gary Allen, a spokesman for the John Birch Society. He described his household as normal and "apolitical", in considerable contras ...
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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 Washington Post'', where he worked as a White House correspondent. Early life and education VandeHei was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and graduated from Lourdes Academy in 1989. In 1995, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh with a double major in journalism and political science. As an undergraduate, he interned at ''The Brillion News'' in Brillion, Wisconsin during the summer of 1993. He later interned in the office of Democratic Senator Herb Kohl in 1994, which led to his decision to become a political journalist. Career After working as a sports reporter for the ''Oshkosh Northwestern'', VandeHei moved to Washington, D.C. In 1995, began working for Inside Washington Publishers. In 1996, he was hired by "Inside the ...
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The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience. As of 2023, the ''Post'' had 130,000 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which were the List of newspapers in the United States, third-largest among U.S. newspapers after ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer (financier), Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine Graham, Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post ...
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Fred Ryan
Frederick Joseph Ryan Jr. (born April 12, 1955) is an American media entrepreneur, political analyst, author, and lawyer who served as the publisher and chief executive officer of ''The Washington Post'' from 2014 to 2023. He was the president and chief operating officer of Allbritton Communications Company and the founding chief executive officer and president of ''Politico''. He served as the chief of staff for former President Ronald Reagan from 1989 to 1995 and is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Early life Ryan was born on April 12, 1955, in Tampa, Florida. His parents, Fred and Beth Ryan, were both military veterans. He grew up on military bases in the US and abroad. Education In 1977, Ryan graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California. In 1980, Ryan graduated with honors from the USC Law School. Ryan received an honorary doctorate and delivered the com ...
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Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the national capital. Arlington County is coextensive with the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau's census-designated place of Arlington. Arlington County is the eighth-most populous county in the Washington metropolitan area with a population of 238,643 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. If Arlington County were incorporated as a city, it would rank as the third-most populous city in the state. With a land area of , Arlington County is the geographically smallest Administrative divisions of Virginia, self-governing county in the nation. Arlington County is home to the Pentagon, the world's second-largest office structure, which houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Defe ...
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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 Tolchin was born in Brooklyn. He attended the University of Utah and New York Law School, and was in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He stated in his memoir that he was prevented from practising law whilst in the army because he refused to reveal the identities of classmates who, like him, studied Marxism while at high school. His political activities, though they had taken place before he joined the Army, meant he was given a general discharge instead of an honorable one. This setback ended his hopes of a legal career. Career After taking a job hunting course at the Veterans Administration and writing over 100 letters to prospective employers, Tolchin was hired by ''The New York Times'' as a copy boy. From there he progressed to ...
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Robert Allbritton
Robert Lewis Allbritton (born February 16, 1969) is the founder and former owner 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 Communications, which owned several ABC-affiliated television stations in Washington, D.C. Allbritton was previously the final CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Bank, from 2001 to 2005, when PNC Bank acquired the bank amidst the money laundering scandal that involved the Allbritton family with the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which led him and his family to pay USD 1 million to a fund for victims of crimes against humanity during Pinochet’s rule as a reparation gesture. Allbritton has been described by ''The New Republic'' as having "reshaped the way we follow politics." He is a trustee of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. In October 2011, Allbritton was included on ''The New Repu ...
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United States Elections, 2012
Elections were held in the United States on November 6, 2012. Democratic President Barack Obama won reelection to a second term and the Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress, retaining control of the Senate even though the Republican Party retained control of the House of Representatives. As of 2024, this is the most recent election cycle in which neither the presidency nor a chamber of Congress changed partisan control, and the last time that the party that won the presidency simultaneously gained seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Obama defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney to win a second term, taking 51.1 percent of the popular vote and 332 of the 538 electoral votes. Romney defeated Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and several other candidates to win his party's nomination in the 2012 Republican primaries. Democrats won a net gain of two Senate seats, retaining control of the chamber. In the first election held in the House of Repre ...
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Business Insider
''Business Insider'' (stylized in all caps: BUSINESS INSIDER; known from 2021 to 2023 as INSIDER) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007. Since 2015, a majority stake in ''Business Insider''s parent company Insider Inc. has been owned by the international publishing house Axel Springer. It operates several international editions, including one in the United Kingdom. ''Insider'' publishes original reporting and aggregates material from other outlets. it maintained a liberal policy on the use of anonymous sources. It has also published native advertising and granted sponsors editorial control of its content. The outlet has been nominated for several awards, but has also been criticized for using factually incorrect clickbait headlines to attract viewership. In 2015, Axel Springer SE acquired 88 percent of the stake in Insider Inc. for $343 million (€306 million), implying a total valuation of $442 million. From ...
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated population of over 449million as of 2024. The EU is often described as a ''sui generis'' political entity combining characteristics of both a federation and a confederation. Containing 5.5% of the world population in 2023, EU member states generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of around €17.935 trillion in 2024, accounting for approximately one sixth of global economic output. Its cornerstone, the European Union Customs Union, Customs Union, paved the way to establishing European Single Market, an internal single market based on standardised European Union law, legal framework and legislation that applies in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where the states ...
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