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Axios

🇺🇸US · digital · independent · axios.com

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	2017 no source on file — the date is not confirmed by us
Headquarters	Arlington, Virginia, US no source on file
Funding	Acquired by Cox Enterprises for $525 million, announced August 8, 2022. Cox holds approximately 70%; Axios co-founders (Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz) and other employees retained the remaining approximately 30% (individual percentages not disclosed). Axios HQ, the internal-communications software business, was spun out as a separate company at the same time, majority-owned by the founders with Cox as minority investor.
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

How hard the claim is stated

Resistance is futile is the report's own — in 1 article

How hard the claim is stated

"Resistance is futile" is the outlet's own summa — in 1 article

Which figure is used

counts the meeting by the single member who refused; the statement is derailed — in 1 article

Which figure is used

Carries the same court order but scopes it to a — in 1 article

From 51 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.

Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 2 misleading1 disputed1 unverified1 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Cox Enterprises	company	70%	yes	equity	—	link
Jim VandeHei	person	not disclosed	—	equity	—	link
Mike Allen	person	not disclosed	—	equity	—	link
Roy Schwartz	person	not disclosed	—	equity	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Jim VandeHei

Co-Founder and CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Axios; previously executive editor and co-founder of Politico.

Mike Allen

Co-Founder and Executive Editor

Co-founder of Axios; writes the daily Axios AM newsletter; previously chief political correspondent at Politico.

Nicholas Johnston

Editor-in-Chief

Media reports in November 2025 (Puck News, Variety) describe him taking on the editor-in-chief role after Aja Whitaker-Moore's departure to the Wall Street Journal; this specific current title c

Journalists

Ina Fried

Chief Technology Correspondent · technology

Chief technology correspondent at Axios since 2017; previously at Recode, All Things Digital and CNET News.

Barak Ravid

Reporter · foreign policy · middle east

Reporter for Axios covering foreign policy and the Middle East; also a political analyst for CNN and a correspondent for Channel 12 News in Israel.

Alex Thompson

National Political Correspondent · politics

National political correspondent at Axios since January 2023; co-author of 'Original Sin' (2025, with Jake Tapper); previously at Politico and Vice News.

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