Drudge Report
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Type of site
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News aggregation, blogging |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Matt Drudge |
| Created by | Matt Drudge |
| Editor | Matt Drudge, Charles Hurt |
| Slogan(s) | Those in power have everything to lose by individuals who march to their own rules |
| Website | drudgereport |
| Alexa rank |
 586 (August 2016[update]) |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 1995 Hollywood, California, United States |
| Current status | Active |
The Drudge Report is a politically conservativeAmerican news aggregation website. Run by Matt Drudge with the help of Charles Hurt, the site consists mainly of links to stories from the United States and international mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and current events; it also has links to many columnists. Occasionally, Drudge authors new stories himself, based on tips.
The Drudge Report originated in 1996 as a weekly subscriber-based email dispatch. It was the first news source to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the public, after Newsweek decided to hold its story.
The Drudge Report started as a gossip column focusing on Hollywood and Washington, D.C. Matt Drudge began the email-based newsletter from an apartment in Hollywood, California using his connections with industry and media insiders to break stories, sometimes before they hit the mainstream media. In its early days Drudge maintained the website from his home in Miami Beach, Florida, with help from assistants in story selection and headline writing. His first assistant was Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart, who described himself as "Matt Drudge's bitch", worked the afternoon shift at the Drudge Report, at the same time as running his own website breitbart.com and another website BigHollywood.com, providing a conservative perspective for people in the Los Angeles entertainment industry.John Ziegler has said that Drudge blocked Breitbart from posting content critical of Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign for the US Presidency.
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