Robert Allbritton is the founder, publisher, and owner of Politico, a non-partisan global news and information company at the intersection of politics and policy, which he sold to the German publishing firm Axel Springer in 2021. He is also executive chairman of Perpetual Capital Partners, a private middle-market investment firm based in Arlington, Virginia.

In 2023, Allbritton announced that he has committed $20 million to launch the Allbritton Journalism Institute (AJI), a non-profit educational organization and newsroom that will train aspiring reporters to produce fact-based, non-partisan journalism on government and politics. A native of Houston, Robert serves on the Board of Directors of the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation and is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University.

Journalism, Media Professionals, Political Journalism, Political, Policy, News & Media, News Reporting, Bipartisan Political Commentators & Pundits,