Michael Allen Biography
Michael Allen is a political journalist from the United States. He is the co-founder and executive editor of Axios and a former Politico top political correspondent.
Michael Allen Age
Allen was born on 21 June 1964,in Orange County, California, United States of America. He is 59 years old as of June 2023.
Michael Allen Education
He attended Washington & Lee University, where he earned a double major in politics and media in 1986.
Michael Allen Family- Father
Allen was born and raised in Orange County, California. Gary Allen, a conservative writer and John Birch Society spokesman, was his father.
Michael Allen Career
Allen’s first position as a reporter was with the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. He has also worked for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Time magazine. In April 2010, The New York Times referred to him as “The Man The White House Wakes Up To” in regard to his frequent correspondence with White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer. Prior to joining Politico at its inception in 2007, he worked for a variety of newspapers, including The New York Times and Time. According to the New York Times, Allen will no longer be writing the Playbook after July 11, 2016. Politico staffers Daniel Lippman, Anna Palmer, and Jake Sherman took over the writing.
Allen contributed to Politico, a Washington-based print and online journal created by Allbritton Communications, by writing the daily “Playbook.” The New York Times projected in April 2010 that Playbook brought in $780,000 for Politico. Allen was profiled in The New York Times Magazine on April 25, 2010, in an article titled “The Man the White House Wakes Up To.” Many believe him to be one of Washington’s most powerful and influential journalists. Allen was named by the Senate Armed Services Committee to the Afghanistan War committee in April 2022, a nonpartisan committee tasked with studying the entirety of US military actions in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021.
Michael Allen Awards
Allen received the Merriman Smith Memorial Award from the White House Correspondents’ Association in 2004 for excellent presidential coverage on deadline. Allen received the award for his coverage of President George W. Bush’s covert journey to Baghdad, Iraq.
Allen Net Worth
Allen has an estimated net worth of 20 million dollars.