The German Owner of ‘Politico’ Wants Another US Media Outlet

Mathias Döpfner shakes the rain from his jacket as he enters the Berlin headquarters of media titan Axel Springer SE, his 6-foot-7-inch silhouette reflected in the glass facade. The building is a 13-story cube with a soaring ceiling, the floors cascading down to form a kind of valley inside, each filled with desks from Springer’s dozen or so European and US titles. Journalists from the German tabloid Bild can see staff from Politico and Business Insider working above them; they in turn peer up at reporters from the Die Welt broadsheet. The building opened in 2020 at a cost ...