Mike Allen
Journalist and Axios co-founder
Mike Allen is a journalist who co-founded Axios and Politico. His catalog title is Smart Brevity.
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About Mike Allen
Mike Allen co-founded Axios, a news and information platform covering business, tech, politics and other topics. He leads its editorial coverage and writes its flagship daily newsletters, Axios AM and Axios PM. Before Axios, he was a co-founder of Politico, where he came up with the Playbook franchise and spent the company's first ten years helping it grow. Vanity Fair has placed him on its "New Establishment" list on several occasions. He has also worked at TIME, The New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as two Virginia papers: the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg. Allen is from Orange County, California, and graduated from Washington and Lee University.