Mike Wendling

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Mike Wendling is a BBC journalist, with the job title US National Digital Reporter, and author of the book Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House.{{cite news |last1=Cooper |first1=Ryan |title=A Political Movement, Defining Itself by What It Hates |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/books/review/mike-wendling-alt-right.html |work=The New York Times |date=6 April 2018 |access-date=8 October 2019}}

He is a former editor of BBC Trending and was part of the team which covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election.{{cite web |title=About Mike Wendling |url=https://www.plutobooks.com/author/mike-wendling/ |website=Pluto Press |access-date=8 October 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/23/alt-right-from-4chan-to-white-house-mike-wendling-review|title=Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House review – in search of a rightwing rabble|last=Bartlett|first=Jamie|date=2018-04-23|work=The Observer|access-date=2019-10-20|issn=0029-7712}}

In 2016, Wendling wrote about subjects including American right-wing social media star Tomi Lahren{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38021995|title=Tomi Lahren: the young Republican who's bigger than Trump on Facebook|last=Wendling|first=Mike|date=2016-11-30|work=BBC|access-date=2020-01-10}} and a factory that was the first to outsource jobs away from the United States.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37856565|title=US Election 2016: The factory that symbolises Donald Trump's appeal|last=Wendling|first=Mike|date=2016-11-04|work=BBC|access-date=2020-01-10}}

He was also contacted by the American terrorist Joshua Ryne Goldberg,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-34292809|title=Neo-Nazi, radical feminist and violent jihadist - all at once|last=Wendling|first=Mike|date=2015-09-21|work=BBC|access-date=2020-01-10}} and interviewed antifa activists and Proud Boys members in Portland, Oregon.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-47332054|title=Proud Boys and antifa: When a right-wing activist met a left-wing anti-fascist|last=Wendling|first=Mike|date=2019-03-08|work=BBC|access-date=2020-01-10}}

He is based in Chicago and is originally from western New York State.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30512986|title=How the fairytale of New York can become a nightmare|last=Wendling|first=Mike|date=2016-11-30|work=BBC|access-date=2014-12-28}}{{cite news |last1=Fraser |first1=Katie |title=Pluto Press lands Wendling's 'chilling' exposé of the far right |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/pluto-press-lands-wendlings-chilling-expose-of-the-far-right |access-date=17 May 2024 |work=The Bookseller |date=20 October 2023 |language=En}}