History
After The Weekly Standard ceased publication in December 2018, Hayes, Goldberg, and Stock were inspired to start a media company with the goal of "producing serious, factually grounded journalism for a conservative audience". [5] Goldberg and Hayes expressed concern over the alliance between conservative media outlets and the Republican Party, and started The Dispatch with a desire to instead focus on conservative principles, regardless of party lines. [6] The company is based in downtown Washington, D.C. [5] By June 2020, The Dispatch had grown to twelve staffers. [7]
The Dispatch began with a beta launch in October 2019 and fully launched on January 7, 2020. [1] Hayes, Goldberg, and Stock own a majority of the company, but there are additional individual investors. [8] The founders intentionally avoided using venture capitalists. [7] At its launch in October 2019, The Dispatch had pooled $6 million in investment capital and had in its employ a full-time staff of eight individuals, [6] including founding editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg, managing editor Rachael Larimore, and (soon after its launch) senior editor David A. French. [2] [9] In January 2020, shortly after launching, The Dispatch Podcast appeared briefly on Apple's Top 100 news podcasts. [5] By March 2020, the company claimed to have nearly 10,000 paying subscribers. [10]
The Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) certified The Dispatch's fact-checking division in May 2020. [11] [12] As of October 2024, The Dispatch had more than 500,000 subscribers, with more than 40,000 of them paying for the full service. [13] The company pulled in nearly $2 million in revenue during its first year, most of which was from Substack subscriptions. [6] [14] The Dispatch was Substack's first media company. [8] In October 2022, the publication moved from Substack to its own website. [15]
The Dispatch has been sharply critical of Donald Trump from a center-right perspective. [2] On 6 January 2021, after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Rudy Giuliani left a voicemail message intended for Senator Tommy Tuberville on a different Senator's voicemail account. This message urged Tuberville to delay certification of the electoral vote: "Just try to slow it down." The unnamed Senator gave the message to The Dispatch, which immediately broke the story. [16] The next day, The Dispatch published an editorial calling for the impeachment and removal of President Trump. [17]
In April 2025, Dispatch Media, Inc. acquired the legal publication SCOTUSblog . [4] [18]
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