Robert B. Bluey is Director of the Center for Media and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation, where he is Editor in Chief of the think tank's Web site, heritage.org, and responsible for its blog.

At Heritage, he oversees the Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting program, and serves as a contributor to the prominent conservative blog RedState, and as a contributing editor to Human Events, the national conservative weekly. Bluey writes a weekly column for Townhall.com about politics, public policy, media and culture and maintains a personal blog at RobertBluey.com.

Bluey hosts a weekly meeting at Heritage for conservative bloggers, which was described by The Washington Times as a place for "conservative bloggers to share information and ideas" as well as interact with members of Congress, authors and other newsmakers.

The Politico recognized Bluey as one of the "Top 50 Politicos" in Washington, D.C., in 2008, and Campaigns & Elections magazine has described him as part of "the next generation" of online pioneers.

Bluey hosted Heritage's first Modern Media Strategies Workshop in 2007. He was among a select group of bloggers invited to the White House in 2006 for the bill signing ceremony for the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, legislation that won passage thanks to a public educational effort by bloggers. He also participated in CNN's Election Night Blog Party in 2006. He frequently speaks on panels about blogging and online journalism. In addition, Bluey was 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 Web site in November 2005 after spending a year as assistant editor and later Managing Editor of Human Events' print edition.

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 Democratic 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 Record-Eagle and The 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.