Joe Lindsley

{{short description|American journalist}}

Joe Lindsley, also writing as JP Lindsley, is an American journalist.

Lindsley is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. In 2003, while an undergrad, he launched The Irish Rover, an independent, Catholic biweekly student newspaper.{{Cite news|last=D'addario|first=Daniel|date=9 January 2014|title=First excerpt of explosive Roger Ailes biography: Five biggest shockers|work=Salon|url=https://www.salon.com/2014/01/08/first_excerpt_of_explosive_roger_ailes_biography_five_biggest_shockers/|access-date=}} During his time at Notre Dame, Lindsley also worked as research assistant to Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Eliana|title='I Want to Explode' — A Roger Ailes Protégé Bares His Soul|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/17/roger-ailes-protege-fox-news-215612/|access-date=17 September 2017|work=POLITICO Magazine|date=17 September 2017}}

In 2009, Lindsley was hired by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. He was appointed editor-in-chief of two local newspapers owned by Ailes, the Putnam County News & Recorder and the Putnam County Courier, both published in Putnam County, New York where Ailes lived. Lindsley transformed them into publications with an aggressively conservative editorial line.{{cite magazine|last1=Boyer|first1=Peter J.|title=Fox Among the Chickens|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/31/fox-among-the-chickens|accessdate=17 September 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|date=24 January 2011}}

Lindsley became a close confidant and protégé of Ailes and his wife, but left Ailes's employ in April 2011 after disagreements with Ailes. In 2017, he wrote a novelistic memoir, Fake News, True Story, chronicling his time working for Ailes. He self-published the book after failing to find a publisher.