Newsmax
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Started: 16 September 1998
Newsmax is an American Trump supporting news website and TV channel, founded by Christopher Ruddy in 1998. Newsmax launched a cable TV channel on June 16, 2014 to 35 million satellite subscribers through DirecTV and Dish Network. As of May 2019, the network reaches about 75 million cable homes and has wide digital media player/mobile device availability.[1]
The website is divided into four main sections: Newsmax, Newsmax Health, Newsmax Finance, and Newsmax World, each divided into various subsections. Newsmax Media also operates a print magazine called Newsmax as well as the cable news channel Newsmax TV.
History
Ruddy started Newsmax.com on September 16, 1998, supported by a group of investors, including the family of the late Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey. Later, Richard Mellon Scaife, Ruddy's former employer at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, invested in the fledgling company.[2] One of the initial board members was author James Dale Davidson who edited a financial newsletter. Davidson's co-editor, Lord Rees-Mogg, former editor of the London Times, later became chairman of Newsmax.[3] Ruddy previously wrote about the murder of Vince Foster.[4]
Other news figures who later joined the Newsmax board included Arnaud de Borchgrave, the longtime Newsweek chief correspondent who also serves as editor-at-large of United Press International (UPI) and Jeff Cunningham, former publisher of Forbes. Admiral Thomas Moorer, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War, also served as one of the company's founding board members. Former United States Secretary of State and Nixon and Ford administration Chief of Staff, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. served as special adviser to NewsMax.[5]
In 1998, Newsmax became known for its anti-Clinton content.[6] In the fall of 2007, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy published a positive interview with former president Bill Clinton on Newsmax.com, followed by a positive cover story in Newsmax magazine. The New York Times said with reference to the event that politics had made "strange bedfellows."[7] Bill Clinton also visited the Newsmax headquarters in West Palm Beach in 2010.[8] In 2014, Newsmax donated $1 million to the Clinton Foundation and CEO Christopher Ruddy has accompanied President Clinton on foundation trips to Africa.[9][10]
Insiders
References
- ↑ https://www.multichannel.com/news/newsmax-grabs-fox-distribution-executive
- ↑ Poe, pp. 171–172.
- ↑ Poe, p. 100.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170318204004/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/business/media/newsmax-a-compass-for-conservative-politics.html
- ↑ https://archive.today/20120906195739/http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/general-alexander-m-haig-jr-joins-newsmaxcom-advisory-board-153810575.html
- ↑ https://archive.today/20210305093602/https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-newsmax-supports-trumps-false-voter-fraud-claims
- ↑ Healy, Patrick, "Clinton gives interview to former foe", thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com, November 1, 2007.
- ↑ https://www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20150428/news/812064499
- ↑ https://stories.clintonfoundation.org/public-private-partnerships-advance-health-care-in-mozambique-88ee06bee3ad
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/02/newsmax-pledged-1m-to-clinton-foundation-202803
- ↑ https://www.newsmax.com/insiders/conradblack/id-358/
