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| Available in | English |
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| Founded | January 11, 2010 (2010-01-11) |
| Owner | The Daily Caller, Inc. |
| Founder(s) | Tucker Carlson Neil Patel |
| URL | dailycaller |
| Advertising | Native |
| Registration | Optional, required to comment |
| Launched | January 11, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-01-11) |
The Daily Caller is a conservative American news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by political pundit Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel in 2010.
History
The Daily Caller was founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel. After raising $3 million in funding from businessman Foster Friess, the website was launched on January 11, 2010. The organization started with a reporting staff of 21 in its Washington office. It was launched as an alternative to the liberal The Huffington Post, similarly featuring sections in broad range of subjects beyond politics.
By late 2012, The New York Times reported that the site had quadrupled its page view and total audience and had become profitable without ever buying an advertisement for itself.
By 2013, the site was receiving over 35 million views a month according to Quantcast, surpassing rival sites such as The Washington Times, Politico, and Forbes. The site has an active community, with over 200,000 comments made each month.
Notable figures have commented on The Daily Caller. Karl Rove has said that "The Daily Caller is necessary reading for anyone who wants to be up to speed with what's going on with politics in America." Larry Kudlow referred to the site as "one of faves."
Staff and contributors
The Daily Caller is in the White House rotating press pool and has full-time reporters on Capitol Hill.
Contributors to The Daily Caller have included economist Larry Kudlow, Congressman Mark Sanford, sculptor Robert Mihaly, diplomat Alan Keyes and Ann Coulter..
The Daily Caller also hosts The Mirror, a blog written by former FishbowlDC editor and The Hill columnist Betsy Rothstein. The Mirror covers media in Washington D.C., news related to journalism organizations, as well as political and media related gossip. The tagline is, "Reflections of a self-obsessed city."
Political stance
When it first launched in January 2010, Mercedes Bunz, writing for The Guardian, said The Daily Caller was "setting itself up to be the conservative answer to The Huffington Post". According to Bunz, a year before the website launched, Carlson promoted it as "a new political website leaning more to the right than Politico and TalkingPointsMemo". However, at launch, he wrote a letter to readers that said it was not going to be a right-wing site.
During a January 2010 interview with Politico, Carlson said The Daily Caller was not going to be tied to his personal political ideologies and that he wanted it to be "breaking stories of importance". In a Washington Post article about The Caller's launch, Howard Kurtz wrote, " partner is Neil Patel, a former Dick Cheney aide. His opinion editor is Moira Bagley, who spent 2008 as the Republican National Committee's press secretary. And his $3 million in funding comes from Wyoming financier Foster Friess, a big-time GOP donor. But Carlson insists this won't be a right-wing site". Kurtz quoted Carlson as saying, "We're not enforcing any kind of ideological orthodoxy on anyone". In an interview with The New York Times, Carlson said that the vast majority of traditional reporting comes from a liberal point of view and called The Daily Caller's reporting "the balance against the rest of the conventional press".
In a 2012 Washingtonian article, Tom Bartlett said Carlson and Patel developed The Daily Caller as "a conservative news site in the mold of the liberal Huffington Post but with more firearms coverage and fewer nipple-slip slide shows".
Awards
- 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award for "Horse Soldiers of 9-11" by Alex Quade
- 2012 American Legion Fourth Estate Award for "The Horse Soldiers of 9-11" by Alex Quade
- 2012 Telly Award for "The Horse Soldiers of 9-11" by Alex Quade
References
- "Dailycaller Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic". Alexa Internet. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
- ^ Stelter, Brian (October 7, 2012). "Still a Conservative Provocateur, Carlson Angles for Clicks, Not Fights". The New York Times. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "The Daily Caller". The Daily Caller. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
- Calderone, Michael (February 1, 2010). "Daily Caller joins W.H. pool". Politico. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
- "On Christian Political Apostasy As The Source Of America's Greatest Peril". The Daily Caller. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- "The Daily Caller". The Daily Caller. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- "Why Stopping Trump Is Of Utmost Importance". The Daily Caller. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- "About us". The Daily Caller. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
- "Fishbowl's Betsy Rothstein to Daily Caller". Politico. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
- Beaujon, Andrew (November 7, 2013). "Betsy Rothstein, Washington's Strangest Gossip, Does Not Explain Washington". New Republic. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
- Bunz, Mercedes (January 11, 2010). "The Daily Caller: the conservative answer to the Huffington Post". The Guardian. London. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
- Calderone, Michael (January 11, 2010), "Tucker: 'Conventional journalism is no safer than a start-up'", Politico
- Kurtz, Howard (January 11, 2010). "Tucker's excellent adventure". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 27, 2010.
- Bartlett, Tom. "The Bearable Lightness of Being Tucker Carlson". The Washingtonian. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
- "List of 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award winners". Radio Television Digital News Association.
- "List of American Legion Fourth Estate Award winners".
- "List of Telly Award winners".
External links
- Daily Caller official site
- Carlson launches rights' answer to Huff Post
- Letter from Tucker
- DC Trawler