Global InformationNewsmax information
 Newsmax logo as of 2021 | |
Type of site | News and opinion |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Newsmax Media |
| Created by | Christopher Ruddy |
| Editor | Christopher Ruddy |
| Key people | Christopher Ruddy (CEO) David J. Perel (Director) Kenneth Chandler (Editor) |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional, but is required to comment |
| Launched | September 16, 1998 |
| Current status | Active |
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Newsmax Media, Inc. (or Newsmax.com, previously styled NewsMax) is an American cable news, political opinion commentary, and digital media company founded by Christopher Ruddy in 1998. It has been variously described as conservative,[10] right-wing,[18] and far-right.[35] Newsmax Media divisions include its cable and broadcast channel Newsmax TV; its website Newsmax.com, which includes Newsmax Health and Newsmax Finance; and Newsmax magazine, its monthly print publication.
Newsmax launched a cable TV channel on June 16, 2014, to 35 million satellite subscribers through DirecTV and Dish Network.[36] As of May 2019, the network reaches about 75 million cable homes and has wide digital media player/mobile device availability.[37] The channel primarily broadcasts from Newsmax's New York studio on Manhattan's East Side, with two headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida and Washington, D.C.[38][39][40] Newsmax began broadcasting in the UK in October 2023, via Freeview Connect.[41]
The website has been described by The New York Times as a "potent force in conservative politics."[42] CEO Christopher Ruddy has attempted to position the network as a competitor to Fox News, including by hiring former Fox News hosts Rob Schmitt, Greg Kelly, Bob Sellers and Heather Childers.[43][44] The Washington Post described Newsmax as "a landing spot for cable news personalities in need of a new home," citing the network's airing of Mark Halperin and Bill O'Reilly following their resignations from other networks due to sexual harassment allegations.[45]
After the 2020 United States presidential election, Newsmax published numerous conspiracy theories made by President Donald Trump and the Trump campaign about voter fraud in the 2020 election, though the network never confirmed the veracity of the statements and accepted the election of Joe Biden as duly elected president.[46][47][48] Newsmax later issued an apology and publicly retracted any voter fraud conspiracy allegations.[49] When asked about Newsmax's support of former President Trump, Ruddy stated, "We have an editorial policy of being supportive of the president and his policies".[50]
In 2021, Newsmax was sued by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic for promoting false claims that the companies had engaged in election fraud during the 2020 presidential election.[51][52] DirecTV dropped Newsmax from its lineup in January 2023, after the companies failed to agree on contract terms.[53][54] In response, forty-two House Republicans signed a letter to DirecTV executives attacking the removal as an act of "suppressing politically disfavored speech."[55] The two companies were able to resolve the dispute and DirecTV resumed broadcasting Newsmax on March 23, 2023.[56][57]
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Christopher Ruddy, 49, the chief executive officer and founder of conservative media company Newsmax Media...
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Stylistically, RT presenters on US politics have more in common with presenters from right-wing US Fox News or NewsMax than CNN or the BBC...
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After a little more than a year on the job, Michael Clemente is out as CEO of Newsmax TV, a right-wing outlet frequently in step with President Donald Trump.
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Newsmax, the magazine and Web site that Mr. Ruddy founded more than a decade ago, is the right-wing populist's Time or Newsweek.
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Instead, you would've had to turn to Newsmax, the right-wing cable news channel that's sticking to its old-school strategy of being the Trumpiest channel on TV.
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Some are venerable right-wing reliables like National Review, The Washington Times, or Newsmax.
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He bonded with Chris Ruddy, a Palm Beach resident and Mar-A-Lago member who founded Newsmax, a prominent far-right media corporation credited with spawning "a cottage industry of conspiracy buffs" with its lurid claims that the death of President Clinton's aide Vince Foster wasn't a suicide, but instead a murder that had been covered up.
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Also, a government cybersecurity official in charge of safeguarding the integrity of the presidential election sued the Trump Campaign, one of its lawyers and far-right media outlet Newsmax for libel, claiming they conspired to falsely assert widespread election fraud. [...] One Trump campaign lawyer said on far-right cable channel Newsmax: "He should be drawn and quartered. Taken out and shot."
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It needs to be noted that on April 30, 2021, Newsmax (the far right wing news alternative to FOX News) apologized for airing false allegations that Dominion Voting Systems manipulated machines or tallies on Election Day to the detriment of Donald Trump.
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Gaetz found a lifeboat in Newsmax, the far-right cable station...
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