| Robert B. Bluey | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 23, 1979 New York[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Ithaca College |
| Occupation | Director of the Heritage Foundation Center for Media and Public Policy |
| Employer | The Heritage Foundation |
| Website | |
| www.robertbluey.com | |
Robert B. Bluey (born August 23, 1979) is an American conservative blogger and journalist. He is director of The Heritage Foundation Center for Media and Public Policy. Bluey is also a contributing editor to Human Events and writes for several prominent news oulets and blogs, including The Daily Caller,[2] RedState,[1][3] Big Government[4] and the Washington Examiner.[5]
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Bluey was born in upstate New York and graduated from Ithaca College with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.[1] While a student, Bluey was the editor of the college newspaper, The Ithacan. After graduating, he spent one year as a fellow at the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Virginia.[3]
In 2004, while a reporter at Cybercast News Service, Bluey gained national recognition as one of the "Rathergate bloggers," a group of bloggers and reporters who questioned the authenticity of documents relied upon by CBS in its investigation of President George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard. The incident became known as "Rathergate" or the Killian documents controversy.[6][7]
Bluey became managing editor and later online editor at Human Events, where he developed the paper's first blog.[6] In 2006, Bluey co-founded "The Bloggers Briefing", a weekly policy discussion among conservative bloggers, politicians and activists. Guests have included Congressmen John Boehner,[8] Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan, Senators Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint and Jim Inhofe, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich,[9] talk-show host Herman Cain,[10] and reporter Robert Novak.[8] Bluey was one of a handful of bloggers invited to attend the bill-signing ceremony of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.[11] He also co-authored the Sunlight Foundation’s Open House Project, which aimed to increase online transparency in Congress.[12]
In 2007, Bluey was hired at the Heritage Foundation, where he became editor of the foundation’s web site and helped create its blog, The Foundry. Campaigns & Elections named Bluey one of its rising stars of 2008,[6] and Politico called him one of the “top 50 politicos to watch.” He took on the role of director of Heritage's Center for Media and Public Policy in 2010, where he leads the foundation’s investigative reporting team.[13][3]