the Daily Signal
{{Short description|Media outlet based in Washington, D.C.}}
{{Infobox website
| name = The Daily Signal
| logo = The_Daily_Signal_logo.png
| type = News and opinion website
| language = English
| headquarters = Washington, D.C.
| editor = Katrina Trinko, editor-in-chief
| president = Robert Bluey
| url = {{url|http://www.dailysignal.com}}
| launch_date = {{start date and age|2014}}
| current_status = Active
}}{{Conservatism US}}
The Daily Signal is an American conservative news and commentary website founded in June 2014. It focuses on politics, policy, and culture and offers political commentary from a conservative perspective.
The Daily Signal was a project of the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.–based conservative think tank from the time of its launch in 2014 until 2024, when it became an independent publication with its own board of directors and leadership.{{cite news |last1=Bluey |first1=Rob |title=Independent and Ambitious: A New Era for The Daily Signal |url=https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/03/independent-and-ambitious-a-new-era-for-the-daily-signal/ |access-date=June 3, 2024 |publisher=Daily Signal |date=June 3, 2024}}
Content
The website reports on American politics and public policy issues, both foreign and domestic, with a focus on stories it believes to be unreported or under-reported.{{cite news |title=Heritage Foundation To Launch 'Straight-Down-The-Middle' News Site |author=Catherine Thompson |url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/heritage-foundation-to-launch-daily-signal-news-site |work=Talking Points Memo |date=May 8, 2014 |access-date=1 December 2014}} The site publishes nonpartisan news reporting and conservative commentary. It was created as an attempt to remedy what the organization saw as a lack of original reporting on public policy issues from understaffed publications.{{cite news |title=The Tea Party Gets Into the News Biz |author=Joshua Green |url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-08/daily-signal-heritage-foundation-news-site-seeks-mainstream-impact |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509052743/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-08/daily-signal-heritage-foundation-news-site-seeks-mainstream-impact |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 9, 2014 |work=Businessweek |date=May 8, 2014 |access-date=1 December 2014}}
The Daily Signal includes an opinion section geared toward Millennial readers that features conservative commentary.{{cite news |title=Heritage Foundation Plans News Site |author=Rebecca Ballhaus |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/05/08/heritage-foundation-to-launch-news-site/ |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=May 8, 2014 |access-date=1 December 2014}} Entertainment and sports stories that relate to politics are also published by the site.{{cite news |title=Heritage Foundation to launch online news site in June |author=Roger Yu |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/05/08/heritage-foundation-news-site/8846899/ |work=USA Today |date=May 8, 2014 |access-date=1 December 2014}}
Leadership
Katrina Trinko, a former National Review political reporter, is The Daily Signal's editor-in-chief. Robert Bluey, a former Human Events editor, Media Research Center reporter, is the president and executive editor of The Daily Signal.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-03 |title=Rob Bluey |url=https://www.dailysignal.com/author/rbluey/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=The Daily Signal}} Tyler O'Neil, a former Fox News editor,{{Cite web |date=2024-01-23 |title=Tyler O'Neil |url=https://www.foxnews.com/person/o/tyler-oneil |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}} is the managing editor.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-23 |title=Tyler O'Neil |url=https://www.dailysignal.com/author/tyler-oneil/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=The Daily Signal}}
History under The Heritage Foundation
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Prior to starting The Daily Signal, The Heritage Foundation ran two digital publications: The Foundry, a blog, and Townhall, a news and opinion site. In 2005, Townhall was acquired by Salem Communications, and The Foundry was phased out in preparation for The Daily Signal, which began in May 2014.{{cite news |title=Sharyl Attkisson joins new Heritage website The Daily Signal |author=Jessica Chasmar |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/3/sharyl-attkisson-joins-heritage-foundations-websit/ |work=The Washington Times |date=June 3, 2014 |access-date=1 December 2014}}{{cite news |title=Heritage Foundation to launch news service |author=Dylan Byers |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/05/heritage-foundation-to-launch-news-service-188148 |work=Politico |date=May 7, 2014 |access-date=24 February 2025}}
The Heritage Foundation founded The Daily Signal as a digital-only news and commentary website. Atlantic Media Strategies was hired to design the site for mobile phones and tablets. Kelly McBride, a media ethicist at the Poynter Institute, said The Daily Signal could never be credible for liberal readers, but could reach an undecided audience, so long as the publication removed political agenda and published quality work from trained journalists.{{cite news |title=Heritage Foundation's news site doesn't have ad or traffic constraints |author=Kristen Hare |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2014/heritage-foundations-news-site-doesnt-have-ad-or-traffic-constraints/ |work=Poynter |date=May 8, 2014 |access-date=September 26, 2024}}
The site officially launched the following month, in June 2014.{{cite news |title=Heritage Foundation starts online site to cover news it says is unreported or under-reported |author=Paul Farhi |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/heritage-foundation-starts-online-site-to-cover-news-it-says-is-unreported-or-under-reported/2014/06/02/2a7631ce-ea76-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 2, 2014 |access-date=September 26, 2024}} Debut stories included an interview with then Kansas Governor Sam Brownback about federal health care law's effects on his state, and an account of a trip to the Korean Demilitarized Zone by Jim DeMint, then president of The Heritage Foundation.
The Daily Signal was funded entirely by The Heritage Foundation through June 3, 2024, when it became independent. The publication's initial annual budget was US$1 million.
When the site launched in 2014, it had a staff of 12 plus freelance reporters.{{cite news |title=Heritage Foundation to launch 'straight-down-the-middle' news site |author=Johana Bhuiyan |url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/05/8545036/heritage-foundation-launch-straight-down-middle-news-site |work=Capital New York |date=May 8, 2014 |access-date=1 December 2014}}
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External links
- {{official website|www.dailysignal.com/}}
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