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Raw Story Hires Two Award-Winning Editors in Investigative Reporting Expansion

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
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Raw Story , America’s largest independently-owned political news site, has hired two new award-winning editors as it embarks on an expansion of original reporting.

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  • Raw Story , America’s largest independently-owned political news site, has hired two new award-winning editors as it embarks on an expansion of original reporting.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230118005067/en/
    Dave Levinthal, formerly deputy editor at Insider, will become Raw Story’s Editor-in-Chief.
  • “I’m tremendously excited to lead Raw Story’s reporting efforts and expand the Raw Story brand and newsroom,” Levinthal said.
  • Prior to Insider, Levinthal reported for Politico and led investigations for the Center for Public Integrity, a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom.

Bipartisan Group of Mid-size Political Publishers Come Together to Offer Joint Advertising Packages

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Thursday, June 20, 2019
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A bipartisan group of mid-size political publishers including Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Alternet, Law&Crime, and the Washington Free Beacon have launched the Digital News Alliance, a coalition offering traditional and customized advertising packages geared toward the 2020 political advertising cycle and beyond.

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  • A bipartisan group of mid-size political publishers including Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Alternet, Law&Crime, and the Washington Free Beacon have launched the Digital News Alliance, a coalition offering traditional and customized advertising packages geared toward the 2020 political advertising cycle and beyond.
  • Together, the properties have over 145 million pageviews per month, 11 million Facebook followers, and 1.1 million Twitter followers.
  • We are very excited to begin this unprecedented partnership, said Andrew Eisbrouch, COO & General Counsel of Mediaite and Law&Crime.
  • The Digital News Alliance will begin selling campaigns immediately on its properties and expects many other publishers to join the initial launch group.

RawStory.com Launches Premium, Paid Multi-site Subscription Package Powered by Admiral's Digital Subscription Platform

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019
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To implement, RawStory.com chose Admiral's Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform as its subscription, engagement and paywall engine.

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  • To implement, RawStory.com chose Admiral's Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform as its subscription, engagement and paywall engine.
  • "Raw Story sees its future in original, reader-supported journalism, powered by reader subscriptions," said Raw Story founder and CEO John Byrne.
  • The subscription offer includes seamless ad-free access across a bundle of political news sites including RawStory.com, AlterNet.org and DCReport.org .
  • Admiral's platform includes the free Measure analytics module, and a suite of engagement, privacy compliance, subscription, and revenue growth tools including Engage, Recover, Transact, and GDPR/CCPA Consent modules.

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter David Cay Johnston Partners with Raw Story in Push for Investigative Journalism

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019
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WASHINGTON, May 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Popular political news website RawStory.com announced today it has partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston and DCReport.org as part of a major push into investigative reporting.

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  • WASHINGTON, May 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Popular political news website RawStory.com announced today it has partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston and DCReport.org as part of a major push into investigative reporting.
  • Johnston and David Crook, a former Wall Street Journal editor, co-founded DCReport, a non-profit news organization, in 2017.
  • "Raw Story sees its future in original, reader-supported journalism," said Raw Story founder and owner John Byrne.
  • "Partnering with Raw Story promises to provide DCReport with the resources we need to expand our hard-hitting investigative reporting," says Johnston.