Robert Allbritton

Robert Lewis Allbritton (born February 16, 1969 ) is the founder of the news website NOTUS and the nonprofit Allbritton Journalism Institute. He is the founder and former owner of Capitol News Company, the parent company of Capitol Hill political newspaper and website Politico which in 2021 was acquired by Axel SpringerSE, a German news publisher and media company, for over $1billion.

Allbritton also served as the chairman and CEO of Allbritton Communications, which owned several ABC-affiliated television stations in Washington, D.C. Allbritton was previously the final CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Bank, from 2001 to 2005, when PNC Bank acquired the bank amidst the money laundering scandal that involved the Allbritton family with the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which led him and his family to agree to pay US$1million to a fund for victims of crimes against humanity during Pinochet's rule.

Allbritton has been described by The New Republic as having "reshaped the way we follow politics." He is a trustee of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

In October 2011, Allbritton was included on The New Republics list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people. and has served as a member of its board of trustees. With his wife Elena, Allbritton donated funds for the establishment of the school's Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life.

Allbritton Journalism Institute and NOTUS In 2023, Allbritton established the Allbritton Journalism Institute (AJI) with a $20million grant. The institute is a nonprofit educational organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to training the next generation of political journalists.