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| Type | Online news site |
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| Format | Website |
| Editor-in-chief | Eliana Johnson |
| Managing editor | Sonny Bunch, Victorino Matus, Stephanie Wang |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Political alignment | Conservative |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Website | freebeacon |
| This article is part of a series on |
| Conservatism in the United States |
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The Washington Free Beacon is an American political journalism website launched in 2012.[1][2] While the website is explicitly conservative and dedicated to "combat journalism"; Politico Magazine reported that it is "somewhat grudgingly respected in liberal circles."[3] Eliana Johnson is the website's editor-in-chief.
The Free Beacon has broken stories about states using racial preferences in rationing Covid-19 drugs, exposed Columbia Law School's plans to evade the banning of consideration of race in admissions, and uncovered Yale administrators' bullying of a student, which led to personnel changes at the school.[3] The Free Beacon also reported on plagiarism accusations against Harvard President Claudine Gay, who resigned shortly thereafter. The Washington Post called Gay's resignation "a major win" for the Free Beacon, which it described as "the rare conservative media outlet that does significant reporting of its own."[4] The website's reporting on a number of senior administrators at Columbia University exchanging antisemitic text messages led to the resignation of three deans.
- ^ Vogel, Kenneth P.; Haberman, Maggie (October 27, 2017). "Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier (Published 2017)". The New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
- ^ Lima, Cristiano (October 27, 2017). "Conservative Free Beacon originally funded firm that created Trump-Russia dossier". POLITICO. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
- ^ a b Novicoff, Marc (November 25, 2023). "This Gen Z Investigative Reporter Is Rocking Conservative Media". Politico Magazine. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
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