The Raw Story

The Raw Story (also stylized as RawStory) is an American online tabloid founded in 2004 by John K. Byrne. It covers current national and international political events and publishes its own editorials which tend to advocate for progressive positions. "The Raw Story" is a news site, bringing attention to stories that it sees as downplayed or ignored by other media outlets. It is owned by Raw Story Media, Inc.
Citation in other media.
"The Raw Story" has been reported on and featured in "The New York Times", "The Guardian", "LA Weekly", the "New York Post", the "Toronto Star", "The Hill", "Rolling Stone", "The Advocate", "Roll Call", and "Mother Jones".
With an average 10.7 million readers per month (2015), the site is described by "Newsweek" as, "Muck, raked: If you're looking for alleged GOP malfeasance, the folks at rawstory.com are frequently scooping the mainstream media."
On August 4, 2008, the Online News Association announced that RawStory.com was a finalist in the 2008 Online Journalism awards in the "Investigative, Small Site" category for the story, "The permanent Republican majority", about improper partisan influence in the prosecution of former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama.
The website's original reporting has also been referenced by MSNBC's Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell, "The Daily Show", "The Colbert Report", "Real Time with Bill Maher", and "Countdown with Keith Olbermann". It was also referenced in 2011 by "The Telegraph" newspaper, as being the news website that first revealed a contract had been awarded to Ntrepid by United States Central Command as part of Operation Earnest Voice, intended to deploy operatives to create fake online personas abroad.
Management.
According to the site's masthead, as of May 2021, the editor and publisher is Roxanne Cooper. Other editors include Eric W. Dolan, managing editor, and senior editors David Edwards, Travis Gettys, and Sarah Burris.
Raw Story Media, Inc..
Raw Story is wholly owned by Raw Story Media, Inc.
Raw Story partners John K. Byrne and Michael Rogers announced on April 2, 2018, that they had acquired AlterNet via a newly created company "AlterNet Media." Byrne stated, "AlterNet will continue to carry content from the Independent Media Institute, its prior owner, and former AlterNet writers may appear with Independent Media Institute bylines.