Robert Allbritton on the Business of Providing 'Essential Information'
Capitol News Company head honcho chats with his Alma Mater.
In Part 1 of a two-part series with Wesleyan University’s student newspaper the Argus, Politico underwriter and Class of 1992 graduate Robert Allbritton shares some interesting observations about the current state of journalism.
He explains how the pursuit of Web traffic goals for big sites never stops. Allbritton also says that Politico earns half its revenues from high-end subscribers (political and policy professionals, via a dozen and a half specialized publications) and that this plugs into a broader and more important journalism fact:
“The reality of it is the 1 percent of readers pays for the other 99 percent of journalism that is out there.
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