National Review
| National Review | |
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| Location: | New York, N.Y. |
| Type: | Publication |
| Founder(s): | William F. Buckley Jr. |
| Year founded: | 1955 |
| Website: | Official website |
National Review is a semi-monthly conservative news outlet that issues opinion pieces on current political topics. National Review also refers to the magazine's online outlet, National Review Online, which features similar reporting along with blog posts on the media, the environment, education and the judiciary, among other topics. The journal was founded as a weekly magazine of conservative opinion in 1955 by William F. Buckley Jr.
History
National Review was founded in 1955 by conservative journalist William F. Buckley Jr. In the journal's initial issue, Buckley wrote that a conservative weekly opinion magazine was needed because "literate America rejected conservatism in favor of radical social experimentation." He saw the journal's mission as a counterpoint to such experimentation: "It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it."[1]
As an exclusively print journal, National Review maintained a "reputation as the cradle for conservative intellectuals and home for erudite and well-mannered debate," according to The New York Times.[2] The paper further noted that, although National Review was openly conservative, it did not act as a "megaphone for Republican Party orthodoxy." Rather, its editorial stance largely followed that of Buckley, who was known for the "surprise twists in his views."[2]
As a print journal, National Review was a consistently conservative voice in the national political landscape. The conservative blog Town Hall praised the journal as having "writers and thinkers uniquely unafraid to follow in Buckley's giant footsteps and tell it like it is."[3]
In early 2015, National Review officially became a nonprofit organization. Commenting to Politico, editor Rich Lowry said: "Publishing a serious opinion magazine has never been a profitable business, and never will be."[4]
Current online work for National Review Online is centered on breaking Washington, D.C., based news and six major blogs—"The Corner," "The Campaign Spot," "Bench Memos," "Phi Beta Cons," "Postmodern Conservative" and "Human Exceptionalism."[5] Of these, "The Corner" is the longest-running and most widely read. It is the site's featured blog with the tagline "The One and Only."[6] In 2009, Politico noted that National Review "stands out as the only 20th century conservative institution—a 54-year-old magazine—that has made such a leap into the 21st."[7]
Readership
The following table details the annual circulation of National Review from 2011 to 2014, according to the Pew Research Center:[8]
| Annual circulation for National Review, 2011–2014 | |
|---|---|
| Year | Total Circulation |
| 2011 | 170,390 |
| 2012 | 164,034 |
| 2013 | 157,686 |
| 2014 | 147,808 |
For National Review Online, the organization says it receives 4.5 million unique visitors per month and 25 million page views per month.[9]
Presidential endorsements
2016 presidential endorsement
✓ National Review endorsed Ted Cruz for the Republican primary in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[10]
- See also: Endorsements for Ted Cruz
Noteworthy events
John Doe investigations
Two John Doe investigations, beginning in 2010 and ending in 2015, were launched by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm (D) into the activities of staff and associates of Gov. Scott Walker (R).[11] National Review writer David A. French covered the John Doe investigations, writing a series of articles exploring the players and events surrounding the investigations. In April 2015, he wrote his first piece entitled "Wisconsin’s Shame: 'I Thought It Was a Home Invasion,'" which, coupled with the fact Walker launched a presidential bid, catapulted the story onto the national media stage. By interviewing the targets of the raids and describing their version of events in detail, French's article humanized a story that had previously played out in the media as a politically-fueled campaign finance skirmish. As a result, many national conservative media outlets, including Fox News and TheBlaze, picked up the story.[12]
Recent news
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ National Review, "Our Mission Statement," November 19, 1955
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The New York Times, "At National Review, a Threat to Its Reputation for Erudition," November 17, 2008
- ↑ Town Hall, "The Self-Immolation of National Review," May 23, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "National Review goes nonprofit," March 31, 2015
- ↑ National Review, "National Review Online," accessed August 14, 2015
- ↑ National Review, "The Corner," accessed August 14, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "Fight's on to be right's TPM, HuffPo," December 12, 2009
- ↑ Pew Research Center, "News Magazines: Fact Sheet," April 29, 2015
- ↑ National Review, "National Review & National Review Online," accessed August 13, 2015
- ↑ National Review, "Ted Cruz for President," March 11, 2016
- ↑ United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Milwaukee Division, "Eric O’Keefe, and Wisconsin Club for Growth, Inc.," accessed February 23, 2015
- ↑ National Review, "Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘I Thought It Was a Home Invasion,'" April 20, 2015
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