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American news websites

  • Time (magazine)On the 3rd of March 1923, a small office in New York City published its first issue. Briton Hadden and Henry Luce stood behind this new weekly news magazine…
  • The Daily BeastThe Daily Beast began publishing on the 6th of October 2008. Tina Brown served as the founding editor after leading Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
  • Salon.comDavid Talbot launched Salon.com in November 1995, emerging from the ashes of the San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994.
  • ProPublicaHerbert and Marion Sandler, former chief executives of Golden West Financial Corporation, committed $10 million per year to launch ProPublica in 2008.
  • Vox (website)Ezra Klein left The Washington Post in January 2014 to launch a new digital news venture. He brought along colleagues from his previous role at Wonkblog…
  • Quartz (publication)On the 24th of September 2012, Quartz launched its website in New York City. The founding team included Kevin Delaney from WSJ.com and Zach Seward from the…
  • Space.comSpace.com launched on the 20th of July 1999. This date marked exactly thirty years since the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs and Rich…
  • The Smoking GunThe Smoking Gun website launched in 1997. William Bastone started the project alongside his wife Barbara Glauber and Daniel Green.