Robert Bluey

Early life and education Bluey was born in upstate New York and graduated from Ithaca College with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

Bluey became managing editor and later online editor at Human Events, where he developed the paper's first blog. Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan, Senators Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint and Jim Inhofe, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, talk-show host Herman Cain, and reporter Robert Novak. He also co-authored the Sunlight Foundation’s Open House Project, which aimed to increase online transparency in Congress.

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,"