Breitbart News
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Type of site
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Politics News and opinion |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Breitbart News Network, LLC |
| Created by | Andrew Breitbart |
| Editor | Alexander Marlow |
| CEO | Larry Solov |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 213(Global November 2016[update]) 35(US November 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional, but is required to comment |
| Launched | 2007 (as Breitbart.tv) |
| Current status | Active |
Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com) is a far-right American news, opinion and commentary website founded in 2007 by conservative commentator and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart. It also has a daily radio program on the Sirius XM Patriot channel called Breitbart News Daily.
Breitbart is headquartered in Los Angeles, with bureaus in Texas, London, and Jerusalem. Co-founder Larry Solov is the owner and CEO, while Joel Pollak is the senior editor-at-large, and Alexander Marlow is managing-editor.
Conceived by Andrew Breitbart during a visit to Israel in summer 2007, with the aim of founding a site "that would be unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel", Breitbart later aligned with the European populist right and American alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steven K. Bannon.The New York Times describes Breitbart News as an organization with "ideologically driven journalists", that is a source of controversy "over material that has been called misogynist, xenophobic and racist". Bannon declared the site "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016, but has denied all allegations of racism and later stated that he rejected the "ethno-nationalist" tendencies of the alt-right movement. The owners of Breitbart deny their website has any connection to the alt-right, or has ever supported any racist or white supremacist views. Breitbart has been described as a "potent voice" for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and the political scientist Matthew Goodwin described Breitbart as being "ultra-conservative" in orientation.
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