The Daily Signal

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The Daily Signal
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Type of site
News and opinion website
Available inEnglish
Headquarters214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Owner The Heritage Foundation
Created byThe Heritage Foundation
EditorKatrina Trinko, editor-in-chief
URL www.dailysignal.com
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Launched2014;10 years ago (2014)
Current statusActive

The Daily Signal is a conservative American political media news and commentary website founded in June 2014. The website focuses on politics, policy, and culture and offers political commentary from a conservative perspective. It is published by The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank.

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History

Prior to starting The Daily Signal, The Heritage Foundation ran two digital publications: The Foundry, a blog, and Townhall, a news and opinion site. In 2005, Townhall was acquired by Salem Communications, and The Foundry was phased out in preparation for The Daily Signal, which the foundation founded in May 2014. [1] [2]

The Heritage Foundation founded The Daily Signal as a digital-only news and commentary website. [3] Atlantic Media Strategies was hired to design the site for mobile phones and tablets. [3] Kelly McBride, a media ethicist at the Poynter Institute, said The Daily Signal could never be credible for liberal readers, but could reach an undecided audience, so long as the publication removed political agenda and published quality work from trained journalists. [4]

The site officially launched the following month, in June 2014. [5] Debut stories included an interview with then Kansas Governor Sam Brownback about federal health care law's effects on his state, [5] and an account of a trip to the Korean Demilitarized Zone by Jim DeMint, then president of The Heritage Foundation. [5]

The website reports on American politics and public policy issues, both foreign and domestic, with a focus on stories it believes to be unreported or under-reported. [3] [6] [1] The site relies on original investigative reporting and initially aimed to be an unbiased news source, but it is currently pro-conservative in its content. [7] [8] It was created as an attempt to remedy what the organization saw as a lack of original reporting on public policy issues from understaffed publications. [3]

The Daily Signal includes an opinion section geared toward Millennial readers that features conservative commentary. [3] [7] Entertainment and sports stories that relate to politics are also published by the site. [8]

As of May 2014, the publication had a staff of 12 plus freelance reporters. [7] [5] [9] [3] Katrina Trinko, a former National Review political reporter, is The Daily Signal's editor-in-chief. Robert Bluey, a former Human Events editor, Media Research Center reporter, and the foundation's vice president of communications, is executive editor. [10] [7] [5] [8] Tyler O'Neil, a former Fox News editor, [11] is the managing editor. [12] [3] [7] [4]

In September 2014, Sharyl Attkisson's interview with former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Maxwell was covered by Fox News, [13] CBS News, [14] Slate , [15] and the New York Daily News . [16]

The Daily Signal is funded entirely by the Heritage Foundation. [7] [4] The publication's initial annual budget was US$1 million. [5] [1]

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  2. ↑ Dylan Byers (May 7, 2014). "Heritage Foundation to launch news service". Politico. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Joshua Green (May 8, 2014). "The Tea Party Gets Into the News Biz". Businessweek. Archived from the original on May 9, 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 Kristen Hare (May 8, 2014). "Heritage Foundation's news site doesn't have ad or traffic constraints". Poynter. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Paul Farhi (June 2, 2014). "Heritage Foundation starts online site to cover news it says is unreported or under-reported". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Catherine Thompson (May 8, 2014). "Heritage Foundation To Launch 'Straight-Down-The-Middle' News Site". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
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  10. ↑ "Rob Bluey, Executive Editor, The Daily Signal". The Daily Signal. 2024-01-18. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  11. ↑ "Tyler O'Neil". Fox News. 2024-01-23. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  12. ↑ "Tyler O'Neil". The Daily Signal. 2024-01-23. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  13. ↑ Judson Berger (September 14, 2014). "Ex-official claims Clinton allies scrubbed Benghazi documents in secret session". Fox News. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  14. ↑ Stephanie Condon (September 17, 2014). "Will politics doom the Benghazi committee's investigation?". CBS News. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  15. ↑ David Weigel (September 15, 2014). "The Benghazi Whistleblower Who Might Have Revealed a Massive Scandal on His Poetry Blog". Slate. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
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