Tom Allon

Tom Allon has been a journalist, columnist, media executive and entrepreneur for almost four decades. He is currently the founder/publisher of City & State, a political media company in NY, Pennsylvania and Florida that Tom sold to Government Executive Media Group in early 2021. 

Before founding City & State, Tom helped build two media companies in the 1990s and the 2000s — a public company called News Communications Inc. and a private company called Manhattan Media, where Tom was CEO and co-owner. 

 News Communications owned 23 weekly newspapers in the New York metropolitan area and Washington DC. There Tom helped with the creation of the successful Capitol Hill daily, The Hill. 

 Manhattan Media owned five weekly newspapers, AVENUE magazine, Dan’s Papers in the Hamptons, New York Family and City Hall & The Capitol newspapers.

 In 2011, Tom made a brief foray into politics, running for NYC mayor. He received the Liberal Party endorsement but dropped out of the race in March 2013 to pursue a media acquisition opportunity.

 Tom is a native New Yorker, graduate of Stuyvesant High School, Cornell University, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He taught English and Journalism at his alma mater, Stuyvesant, in the mid 1980s and was the faculty advisor of the official school newspaper, The Stuyvesant Spectator. 

 Tom grew up on the Upper West Side and raised his three children, Jonah, Tess and Lena there. He also has a stepdaughter, Sandy Cohen Alpert. He now splits his time between Dumbo, Brooklyn and East Moriches, Long Island with his wife Rebecca and their two cats, Sonny and Wiley E. Coyote.