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Guns & Rosslyn

As the search for Politico’s next editor-in-chief drags into its third month, promising but obvious candidates are falling fast while sources say Axel Springer C.E.O. Mathias Döpfner is close to picking a winner. Just don’t expect it to be anyone obvious.

Mathias Döpfner
Axel Springer C.E.O. and controlling shareholder Mathias Döpfner will announce the next editor-in-chief of Politico, Puck has learned. Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
March 25, 2026

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In the coming days—certainly before next month’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner—I’m told that Axel Springer C.E.O. and controlling shareholder Mathias Döpfner will announce the next editor-in-chief of Politico. It will mark a pivotal event in that now-storied news organization’s 20-year history, and one that will hopefully signal something about Mathias’s broader ambitions for a transatlantic media empire that also includes Bild and Die Welt in Berlin and, soon enough, The Telegraph in London.