Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

As Director of Online Strategy, Robert B. Bluey is responsible for developing and integrating The Heritage Foundation's Internet presence. He oversees the organization's social media outreach, online advertising and issue advocacy campaigns.

At Heritage, he oversaw the creation of The Foundry blog and daily Morning Bell e-mail. He co-founded the weekly Conservative Bloggers Briefing in 2006, which The Washington Times described as a place for "conservative bloggers to share information and ideas" as well as interact with members of Congress, authors and other newsmakers.

Bluey serves on the board of visitors for the Institute for Political Journalism. He is a contributing editor to the conservative blog RedState.com and the national conservative weekly Human Events. He also writes for The Next Right and K Street Café. He maintains a personal blog at RobertBluey.com.

Campaigns & Elections magazine named Bluey a "rising star" in 2008 and The Politico dubbed him as one of the "Top 50 Politicos" in Washington , D.C.

"He's an online entrepreneurial genius," Cybercast News Service Editor-In-Chief Terry Jeffery told Politics magazine. "He's taught people how to bypass the establishment media, and that's been so valuable to the conservative movement."

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 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 in Congress.

Before 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 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 Los Angeles Times, Clinton Courier and New Hartford News. He was also a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern at the Traverse City Record-Eagle. After college, Bluey was awarded a yearlong fellowship at the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife.