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...Thursday’s deal included the remaining 50 per cent of Politico Europe as well as Protocol, a technology news website also founded and controlled by Politico publisher Robert Allbritton....
...Now its financial backer, Robert Allbritton, has secured close to $1bn, or five times the company’s reported revenue....
...Smart reads Front-page dealmaking Axel Springer’s purchase of Politico made Robert Allbritton one of the most successful media investors of this century....
...“I don’t think the [US-Canada] relationship has been at a greater inflection point at any time in the past 50 years,” Robert Allbritton, Politico’s publisher, told the Financial Times....
...The original Politico was launched in 2007 by Mr Harris and Jim VandeHei, with backing from Robert Allbritton, whose family owned a portfolio of television stations....
...Politico is owned by Robert Allbritton, a former television station owner, and was founded by two former Washington Post reporters, Jim VandeHei and John Harris....
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