Now that the ethically dubious publication of some of his private emails has derailed Dave Weigel’s tenure at The Washington Post by raising questions about his ability to report effectively on the conservative movement, we thought it would be a good time to highlight just how effective Weigel can be. More…
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…
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 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…
For the first few years of George W. Bush’s presidency, Mark Tapscott was a journalist without a newsroom, shouting from the sidelines about his industry’s swift decline. Tapscott ran the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Media and Public Policy, and trained reporters in the use of technology for research and crunching More…
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