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Carlson Launches Right’s Answer to HuffPost

By | 01.07.10 | 6:00 am

The offices of The Daily Caller evoke a long-ago era of journalism, circa 2005 or 2006, before the Los Angeles Times closed its big-city bureaus, The Washington Times fired 60 percent of its staff, and magazines from Gourmet to Portfolio shuttered for lack of revenue. A staff of 21 reporters More…

Take a Ride on Tucker Carlson’s Spaceship

By | 01.05.10 | 4:13 pm

First announced in May 2009, Tucker Carlson’s new conservative website The Daily Caller is launching on Jan. 11. The next day, fans and friends (no crashers!) are invited to a launch event hosted by famed party-thrower Juleanna Glover, Vice President Dick Cheney’ former press secretary. Sponsors include the More…

Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller Hires Mike Riggs

By | 12.14.09 | 2:29 pm

Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller magazine, which I’m told is prepping to launch in mid-January, has hired Mike Riggs, an editor at the struggling alt-weekly Washington City Paper, to be one of the new site’s Web editors. Riggs was an intern at Reason — where I’m a contributing editor — More…