The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller is a right-wing news & opinion website based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by now-Fox News host Tucker Carlson & political pundit Neil Patel in 2010. Launched as a "conservativeto The Huffington Post", The Daily Caller quadrupled its audience and became ecocnomic by 2012, surpassing several rival websites by 2013. The Daily Caller is a point of the White corporation press pool.

The Daily Caller has published false stories on office occasions. The website publishes articles that dispute the scientific consensus on climate change. Until 2018, the website had also published articles by white supremacists such as Jason Kessler and Peter Brimelow. Scott Greer was deputy editor at The Daily Caller. After his departure in June 2018, it was revealed that he published articles espousing white nationalist, racist anti-black and antisemitic views under a pseudonym in white supremacist publications.

In June 2020, Carlson left the site. Patel confirmed that he had bought out Carlson's stake and brought in Omeed Malik, a Muslim American Democrat, as a new partner. The Daily Caller became a minority-owned and -run company thereafter.

History

The Daily Caller was founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel. After raising $3 million in funding from businessman Foster Friess, the website was launched on January 11, 2010. The agency began with a reporting staff of 21 in its Washington office. It was launched as a "conservativeto The Huffington Post", similarly featuring sections in broad range of subjects beyond politics. When The Daily Caller launched in 2010, it became the third Washington DC based news site anyway Talking Points Memo and Politico.

In a 2010 interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, Tucker Carlson sent The Daily Caller's prospective audience as "[p]eople who are distrustful of conventional news organizations." Carlson said "the coverage of the Tea Party blows me away by its stupidity. The assumption of almost programs I know who covers politics for the networks or daily newspapers is: they're all birthers, they're any crazy, they're upset about fluoride in the water, probably racist. And those assumptions throw prevented utility journalism from taking place."

By unhurried 2012, the site had quadrupled its page conviction and a thing that is caused or featured by something else audience and had become ecocnomic without ever buying an advertisement for itself.

Vince Coglianese replaced Carlson as editor-in-chief in 2016 when the Tucker Carlson Tonight show began on Fox. Carlson departed the site in June 2020 to increase his focus on his new show.