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Robert B. Bluey is director of the Center for Media & Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. He maintains a blog at RobertBluey.com, serves as a contributor to the prominent conservative blog RedState.com, and is a contributing editor to Human Events, the national conservative weekly.
At Heritage, he hosts a weekly meeting of conservative bloggers, oversees the Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting program and writes about politics, public policy, media and culture.
Bluey was among a select group of bloggers invited to the White House in September 2006 for the bill signing ceremony for the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, legislation that won passage with the help of bloggers. He was also invited to CNN’s Election Nite Blog Party in November 2006. He frequently speaks on panels about blogging and online journalism. Bluey is a coordinator for the Open House Project, an effort to increase government transparency.
Prior to joining Heritage in 2007, Bluey served as editor of HumanEvents.com, which he transformed into a popular destination for conservative journalism. He was named editor of the website in November 2005 after spending a year as assistant editor and later managing editor of the print edition of Human Events.
Bluey also worked at Cybercast News Service, where he was the first journalist to report on the forged CBS documents on President Bush’s National Guard service. He covered the Republican and Democrat conventions in 2004.
He grew up in upstate New York and graduated from Ithaca College, where he edited the college’s award-winning newspaper, The Ithacan. He remains closely involved with his alma mater, serving on its Alumni Association Board of Directors.
During his college years, he worked for the Clinton Courier, Traverse City Record-Eagle and Los Angeles Times. After college, he was awarded a year-long fellowship at the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va.
He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife.
The views expressed on RobertBluey.com do not necessarily represent the views of his current or previous employers.
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CNN, November 8, 2006
Fox News Channel, March 26, 2006