Allbritton Boasts Politico Will Rake In $113 Million This Year

Vanity Fair: When it launched, in 2007, Politico was part of a new wave of digital media brands — Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Vice, among them — that proffered the future of journalism. But Politico was always distinct from its peers in crucial ways. Notably, it wasn’t a fund-raising darling. Instead, Politico was entirely funded by Robert Allbritton, an investor and Beltway media scion.