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Washington Examiner

January 01, 1970

The Washington Examiner is a U.S. conservative news outlet based in Washington, D.C., that consists principally of a website and a weekly printed magazine. It is owned by Philip Anschutz through MediaDC, a subsidiary of Clarity Media Group.[3]

Washington Examiner
Front cover of Washington Examiner magazine for May 26, 2014
TypeWebsite, weekly magazine
FormatInternet, magazine
Owner(s)MediaDC
Founder(s)Philip Anschutz
Editor-in-chiefHugo Gurdon[1]
Founded2005; 19 years ago (2005) (newspaper) (as Montgomery Journal, Prince George's Journal, and Northern Virginia Journal)
2013 (2013) (magazine)
Political alignmentConservative
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication2013 (2013) (newspaper)
Headquarters1152 15th St. NW
Suite 200
Washington, D.C.
20005
Circulation90,000 (as of 2021)[2]
Websitewashingtonexaminer.com

From 2005 to 2013, the Examiner published a daily tabloid-sized newspaper, distributed throughout the D.C. metro area. The newspaper focused on local news and political commentary.[4] The local newspaper ceased publication on June 14, 2013, whereupon its content began to focus almost exclusively on national politics, from a conservative point of view, switching its print edition from a daily newspaper to an expanded print weekly magazine format.[5][6][7]

History edit

 
A Washington Examiner dispenser, from the time when the newspaper was a free daily paper.

The publication now known as the Washington Examiner began its life as a handful of suburban news outlets known as the Journal Newspapers, distributed not in Washington D.C. itself, but only in its suburbs: Montgomery Journal, Prince George's Journal, and Northern Virginia Journal.[8] Philip Anschutz purchased the parent company, Journal Newspapers Inc., in 2004.[4][9][10] On February 1, 2005, the paper's name changed to the Washington Examiner, and it adopted a logo and format similar to those of another newspaper Anschutz then owned, San Francisco Examiner.[8]

The Washington Examiner became increasingly influential in conservative political circles, hiring much of the talent from The Washington Times.[11] The website DCist wrote in March 2013: "Despite the right-wing tilt of [the Examiner's] editorial pages and sensationalist front-page headlines, it also built a reputation as one of the best local sections in D.C."[12] The newspaper's local coverage also gained attention, including a write-up by The New York Times,[13] for contributing to the arrest of more than 50 fugitives through a feature that each week spotlighted a different person wanted by law enforcement agencies.

In March 2013, the company announced that it would stop printing a daily edition in June and refocus on national politics. The print edition was converted to a weekly magazine, while the website was continually updated.[14] The new format was compared to that of The Hill.[6][14] In December 2018, Clarity Media announced that the magazine would become a publicly available, expanded print magazine.[15]

On January 27, 2020, Roy Moore filed a $40 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Examiner. A former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and candidate in the United States Senate special election in Alabama for the seat left open when Jeff Sessions joined the Trump administration, Moore claimed that the magazine repeatedly wrote "fake news" attacks stemming from allegations that he made unwanted sexual and romantic advances to girls as young as 15 when he was in his late 30s.[16]

In January 2020, breaking news editor Jon Nicosia was fired after showing a sexually explicit video to colleagues. Nicosia denied any wrongdoing, saying he had only shared the video "because he thought it might go viral ... and become a news story". Nicosia accused managing editor Toby Harnden of abusive workplace behavior. An employee's complaint seen by CNN said that Harnden had created a "toxic work environment" and a climate of "workplace terror and bullying". Editor-in-chief Hugo Gurdon then announced Harnden had departed and that he was "enlisting a third-party to conduct a thorough investigation" into the Examiner. But CNN reported that "current and former Examiner employees" said that "Gurdon was aware of Harnden's brutish managing style" long before it became a public issue and did nothing about it.[17][18]

In October 2020, the Examiner hired Greg Wilson as the new managing editor. As online editor of the Fox News website, Wilson had previously published a news story supporting the conspiracy theory about murdered Democratic aide Seth Rich and WikiLeaks.[19]

In June 2020, the Examiner published an op-ed by "Raphael Badani", a fake persona who was part of a broader network pushing propaganda for the United Arab Emirates and against Qatar, Turkey, and Iran. The Daily Beast reported that Badani's "profile photos are stolen from the blog of an unwitting San Diego startup founder" while his "LinkedIn profile, which described him as a graduate of George Washington and Georgetown, is equally fictitious."[20]

Distribution and readership edit

The magazine's publisher said in 2013 that it would seek to distribute the magazine to at least "45,000 government, public affairs, advocacy, academia and political professionals".[12] The publisher also claimed the Examiner's readership is more likely to sign a petition, contact a politician, attend a political rally, or participate in a government advocacy group than those of Roll Call, Politico, or The Hill.[21] Its publisher claims that the Examiner has a high-earning and highly educated audience, with 26 percent holding a master's or postgraduate degree and a large percentage earning over $500,000 annually, likely to be working in executive or senior management positions.[21]

Notable columnists and contributors edit

Content and editorial stance edit

The Examiner has been described as and is widely regarded as conservative.[22] When Anschutz started it in its daily newspaper format, he envisioned creating a competitor to The Washington Post with a conservative editorial line. According to Politico: "When it came to the editorial page, Anschutz's instructions were explicit—he 'wanted nothing but conservative columns and conservative op-ed writers,' said one former employee."[4]

According to the Columbia Journalism Review, among the conservative media landscape, the Examiner "is structured more or less like a mainstream newspaper—complete with clear distinctions between news reporting and commentary roles. The outlet has one of the largest newsrooms in online conservative media, with dedicated breaking news reporters and more specialized beat reporters, and a full editorial hierarchy." According to Editor in Chief Hugo Gurdon, the paper's conservatism on the news side was largely based on story selection, citing The Daily Telegraph as an inspiration.[23]

The Examiner endorsed John McCain in the 2008 presidential election[24] and Adrian Fenty in the 2010 Washington, D.C., mayoral election.[25] On December 14, 2011, it endorsed Mitt Romney for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, publishing an editorial saying he was the only Republican who could beat Barack Obama in the general election.[26]

Anti-immigration stories edit

In January 2019, the Washington Examiner published a story with the headline, "Border rancher: 'We've found prayer rugs out here. It's unreal'". Shortly thereafter, President Donald Trump cited the story as another justification for a border wall amid the 2018–19 federal government shutdown. The story in question cited one anonymous rancher who offered no evidence of prayer rugs. The story provided no elaboration on how the rancher knew the rugs in question were Muslim prayer rugs. The author of the story formerly worked as press secretary for the anti-immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform. Stories of Muslim prayer rugs at the border are urban myths that have frequently popped up since at least 2005, but without evidence.[27] The Examiner never issued a clarification or retracted the story.

In April 2019, Quartz reported that White House advisor Stephen Miller had been purposely leaking information on border apprehensions and asylum seekers to the Washington Examiner so that the paper would publish stories with alarming statistics that sometimes criticized DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, which he could then show to Trump to undermine her. Nielsen was fired in April 2019, reportedly for being insufficiently hawkish on immigration.[28][29]

Climate change edit

The Washington Examiner has published opinion pieces that oppose or deny the scientific consensus on climate change.[30][31][32][33] In February 2010, it published an op-ed in which Michael Barone, a pundit who writes frequently promoting skepticism of climate science,[34] citing the Climatic Research Unit email controversy to argue that the scientific consensus on climate change was "propaganda ... based on ... shoddy and dishonest evidence".[35][36] Daniel Sarewitz of Arizona State University criticized Barone, writing that Barone and other conservative climate change pundits erroneously "portrayed deviation from scientific certainty and highly idealized notions of 'the scientific method' as evidence against climate change", which he compared to "equally naïve and idealized" presentations on the other side of the debate, such as the film An Inconvenient Truth.[35]

In 2017, the Washington Examiner editorial board supported Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords, which the Examiner editorial board called "a big flashy set of empty promises... The Earth's climate is changing, as it always has. And part of the reason it is changing is due to human activity. But those two facts are excuses neither for alarmism and reflexive, but ineffective action, nor for sacrificing sovereignty to give politicians a short-term buzz of fake virtue and green guerrillas another weapon with which to ambush democratic policymaking."[37][38]

On August 31, 2019, the Examiner published an op-ed by Patrick Michaels and Caleb Stewart Rossiter titled "The Great Failure of the Climate Models".[39] It claimed that overwhelmingly accepted climate models were not valid scientific tools. Scientists described the Washington Examiner op-ed as highly misleading, noting that there were numerous false assertions and cherry-picked data in the op-ed.[40]

2022 rejection of Donald Trump edit

On the day after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the House select committee on the January 6 attack, the Examiner published an editorial titled "Trump proven unfit for power again," writing in part:

Cassidy Hutchinson's Tuesday testimony ought to ring the death knell for former President Donald Trump's political career. Trump is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again ... Hutchinson's testimony confirmed a damning portrayal of Trump as unstable, unmoored, and absolutely heedless of his sworn duty to effectuate a peaceful transition of presidential power ... Trump is a disgrace. Republicans have far better options to lead the party in 2024. No one should think otherwise, much less support him, ever again.[41][42]

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The Washington Examiner is a U S conservative news outlet based in Washington D C that consists principally of a website and a weekly printed magazine It is owned by Philip Anschutz through MediaDC a subsidiary of Clarity Media Group 3 Washington ExaminerFront cover of Washington Examiner magazine for May 26 2014TypeWebsite weekly magazineFormatInternet magazineOwner s MediaDCFounder s Philip AnschutzEditor in chiefHugo Gurdon 1 Founded2005 19 years ago 2005 newspaper as Montgomery Journal Prince George s Journal and Northern Virginia Journal 2013 2013 magazine Political alignmentConservativeLanguageEnglishCeased publication2013 2013 newspaper Headquarters1152 15th St NWSuite 200Washington D C 20005Circulation90 000 as of 2021 2 Websitewashingtonexaminer com From 2005 to 2013 the Examiner published a daily tabloid sized newspaper distributed throughout the D C metro area The newspaper focused on local news and political commentary 4 The local newspaper ceased publication on June 14 2013 whereupon its content began to focus almost exclusively on national politics from a conservative point of view switching its print edition from a daily newspaper to an expanded print weekly magazine format 5 6 7 Contents 1 History 2 Distribution and readership 3 Notable columnists and contributors 4 Content and editorial stance 4 1 Anti immigration stories 4 2 Climate change 4 3 2022 rejection of Donald Trump 5 References 6 External linksHistory edit nbsp A Washington Examiner dispenser from the time when the newspaper was a free daily paper The publication now known as the Washington Examiner began its life as a handful of suburban news outlets known as the Journal Newspapers distributed not in Washington D C itself but only in its suburbs Montgomery Journal Prince George s Journal and Northern Virginia Journal 8 Philip Anschutz purchased the parent company Journal Newspapers Inc in 2004 4 9 10 On February 1 2005 the paper s name changed to the Washington Examiner and it adopted a logo and format similar to those of another newspaper Anschutz then owned San Francisco Examiner 8 The Washington Examiner became increasingly influential in conservative political circles hiring much of the talent from The Washington Times 11 The website DCist wrote in March 2013 Despite the right wing tilt of the Examiner s editorial pages and sensationalist front page headlines it also built a reputation as one of the best local sections in D C 12 The newspaper s local coverage also gained attention including a write up by The New York Times 13 for contributing to the arrest of more than 50 fugitives through a feature that each week spotlighted a different person wanted by law enforcement agencies In March 2013 the company announced that it would stop printing a daily edition in June and refocus on national politics The print edition was converted to a weekly magazine while the website was continually updated 14 The new format was compared to that of The Hill 6 14 In December 2018 Clarity Media announced that the magazine would become a publicly available expanded print magazine 15 On January 27 2020 Roy Moore filed a 40 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Examiner A former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and candidate in the United States Senate special election in Alabama for the seat left open when Jeff Sessions joined the Trump administration Moore claimed that the magazine repeatedly wrote fake news attacks stemming from allegations that he made unwanted sexual and romantic advances to girls as young as 15 when he was in his late 30s 16 In January 2020 breaking news editor Jon Nicosia was fired after showing a sexually explicit video to colleagues Nicosia denied any wrongdoing saying he had only shared the video because he thought it might go viral and become a news story Nicosia accused managing editor Toby Harnden of abusive workplace behavior An employee s complaint seen by CNN said that Harnden had created a toxic work environment and a climate of workplace terror and bullying Editor in chief Hugo Gurdon then announced Harnden had departed and that he was enlisting a third party to conduct a thorough investigation into the Examiner But CNN reported that current and former Examiner employees said that Gurdon was aware of Harnden s brutish managing style long before it became a public issue and did nothing about it 17 18 In October 2020 the Examiner hired Greg Wilson as the new managing editor As online editor of the Fox News website Wilson had previously published a news story supporting the conspiracy theory about murdered Democratic aide Seth Rich and WikiLeaks 19 In June 2020 the Examiner published an op ed by Raphael Badani a fake persona who was part of a broader network pushing propaganda for the United Arab Emirates and against Qatar Turkey and Iran The Daily Beast reported that Badani s profile photos are stolen from the blog of an unwitting San Diego startup founder while his LinkedIn profile which described him as a graduate of George Washington and Georgetown is equally fictitious 20 Distribution and readership editThe magazine s publisher said in 2013 that it would seek to distribute the magazine to at least 45 000 government public affairs advocacy academia and political professionals 12 The publisher also claimed the Examiner s readership is more likely to sign a petition contact a politician attend a political rally or participate in a government advocacy group than those of Roll Call Politico or The Hill 21 Its publisher claims that the Examiner has a high earning and highly educated audience with 26 percent holding a master s or postgraduate degree and a large percentage earning over 500 000 annually likely to be working in executive or senior management positions 21 Notable columnists and contributors editKristen Soltis Anderson Michael Barone Tim Cavanaugh David Freddoso Quin Hillyer Timothy P Carney Philip Klein Julie Mason Larry O Connor Tara Palmeri Bill Sammon Rudy Takala Geovanny Vicente Byron YorkContent and editorial stance editThe Examiner has been described as and is widely regarded as conservative 22 When Anschutz started it in its daily newspaper format he envisioned creating a competitor to The Washington Post with a conservative editorial line According to Politico When it came to the editorial page Anschutz s instructions were explicit he wanted nothing but conservative columns and conservative op ed writers said one former employee 4 According to the Columbia Journalism Review among the conservative media landscape the Examiner is structured more or less like a mainstream newspaper complete with clear distinctions between news reporting and commentary roles The outlet has one of the largest newsrooms in online conservative media with dedicated breaking news reporters and more specialized beat reporters and a full editorial hierarchy According to Editor in Chief Hugo Gurdon the paper s conservatism on the news side was largely based on story selection citing The Daily Telegraph as an inspiration 23 The Examiner endorsed John McCain in the 2008 presidential election 24 and Adrian Fenty in the 2010 Washington D C mayoral election 25 On December 14 2011 it endorsed Mitt Romney for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination publishing an editorial saying he was the only Republican who could beat Barack Obama in the general election 26 Anti immigration stories edit In January 2019 the Washington Examiner published a story with the headline Border rancher We ve found prayer rugs out here It s unreal Shortly thereafter President Donald Trump cited the story as another justification for a border wall amid the 2018 19 federal government shutdown The story in question cited one anonymous rancher who offered no evidence of prayer rugs The story provided no elaboration on how the rancher knew the rugs in question were Muslim prayer rugs The author of the story formerly worked as press secretary for the anti immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform Stories of Muslim prayer rugs at the border are urban myths that have frequently popped up since at least 2005 but without evidence 27 The Examiner never issued a clarification or retracted the story In April 2019 Quartz reported that White House advisor Stephen Miller had been purposely leaking information on border apprehensions and asylum seekers to the Washington Examiner so that the paper would publish stories with alarming statistics that sometimes criticized DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen which he could then show to Trump to undermine her Nielsen was fired in April 2019 reportedly for being insufficiently hawkish on immigration 28 29 Climate change edit The Washington Examiner has published opinion pieces that oppose or deny the scientific consensus on climate change 30 31 32 33 In February 2010 it published an op ed in which Michael Barone a pundit who writes frequently promoting skepticism of climate science 34 citing the Climatic Research Unit email controversy to argue that the scientific consensus on climate change was propaganda based on shoddy and dishonest evidence 35 36 Daniel Sarewitz of Arizona State University criticized Barone writing that Barone and other conservative climate change pundits erroneously portrayed deviation from scientific certainty and highly idealized notions of the scientific method as evidence against climate change which he compared to equally naive and idealized presentations on the other side of the debate such as the film An Inconvenient Truth 35 In 2017 the Washington Examiner editorial board supported Trump s unilateral withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords which the Examiner editorial board called a big flashy set of empty promises The Earth s climate is changing as it always has And part of the reason it is changing is due to human activity But those two facts are excuses neither for alarmism and reflexive but ineffective action nor for sacrificing sovereignty to give politicians a short term buzz of fake virtue and green guerrillas another weapon with which to ambush democratic policymaking 37 38 On August 31 2019 the Examiner published an op ed by Patrick Michaels and Caleb Stewart Rossiter titled The Great Failure of the Climate Models 39 It claimed that overwhelmingly accepted climate models were not valid scientific tools Scientists described the Washington Examiner op ed as highly misleading noting that there were numerous false assertions and cherry picked data in the op ed 40 2022 rejection of Donald Trump edit On the day after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the House select committee on the January 6 attack the Examiner published an editorial titled Trump proven unfit for power again writing in part Cassidy Hutchinson s Tuesday testimony ought to ring the death knell for former President Donald Trump s political career Trump is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again Hutchinson s testimony confirmed a damning portrayal of Trump as unstable unmoored and absolutely heedless of his sworn duty to effectuate a peaceful transition of presidential power Trump is a disgrace Republicans have far better options to lead the party in 2024 No one should think otherwise much less support him ever again 41 42 References edit Staff washingtonexaminer com Archived from the original on May 23 2020 Retrieved May 15 2020 2021 Media Kit PDF Washington Examiner Archived PDF from the original on April 14 2023 Retrieved May 9 2023 The Forbes 400 2020 The Richest People in America Forbes Archived from the original on October 7 2019 Retrieved September 9 2020 a b c Calderone Michael October 16 2009 Phil Anschutz s Conservative Agenda Politico Archived from the original on March 27 2017 Connolly Matt June 13 2013 The Washington Examiner local news team says goodbye after eight years Washington Examiner Archived from the original on July 2 2018 Retrieved July 5 2013 a b Sommer Will March 19 2013 Staffers Told Washington Examiner Will Cease Daily Publication Washington City Paper Archived from the original on August 22 2017 Retrieved April 29 2020 Sommer Will March 19 2013 Washington Examiner Memo New Weekly Paper to Target Key Influencers Washington City Paper Archived from the original on April 29 2020 Retrieved April 29 2020 a b Robertson Lori April May 2007 Home Free American Journalism Review Archived from the original on November 16 2018 Retrieved July 5 2013 Weekly Standard acquired by Washington Examiner parent company Washington Examiner June 16 2009 Archived from the original on March 22 2019 Retrieved March 22 2019 Helman Christopher October 21 2010 The Man Behind the Curtain Forbes Archived from the original on March 21 2014 Retrieved July 9 2013 Joyner James March 19 2013 Washington Examiner Newspaper Closing Becoming Weekly Magazine Outside the Beltway Archived from the original on March 23 2013 a b Freed Benjamin R March 19 2013 Washington Examiner to Cease Daily 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