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The “Playbook” is an early morning newsletter published by Politico. Started by founder Mike Allen in 2006, Playbook arrives via email to anyone who signs up to receive the column each day. Playbook developed a large base of readers, and was credited through the Obama Administration with, in some ways, setting the political agenda for each day with the topics it covered. Allen received assistance from other Politico reporters over the years, and authorship of Playbook was taken over by others in 2016 when Allen departed Politico.
Recently, Politico has had guest editors put out the newsletter, and the guest editor this morning was Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, a conservative opinion writer with 3.3 million followers on Twitter. Howls of outrage have been heard from inside Politico’s newsroom as a result — apparently, the invitation to Shapiro to be a guest editor of today’s Playbook wasn’t widely known inside the publication.