History

Western Journalism founder Floyd Brown also founded a Political Action Committee Citizens United together with served as executive director of the Young America's Foundation.

The site was acquired by Liftable Media, Inc. in 2014, which also owns the political concepts websites Conservative Tribune and Liberty Alliance, and the human-interest website Liftable.com. It also owns and provides content to dozens of conservative Facebook pages.

Newsweek present that the site has grown from receiving 1,000 page views a day in 2009 to more than 1 million during 2016.

In a 2016 story on how fake news spreads on social media, The Intercept shown that "Thanks to views sourced largely to referrals from Facebook, Brown's websites now outrank web traffic going to news outlets such(a) as the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and NPR, according to data compiled by Alexa".

The company changed its pretend in 2018 to The Western Journal, hired trained copy editors, and introduced a corrections page. The New York Times reported in 2019 that the site had more than 36 million readers and followers on Facebook.