POLITICO: Breitbart News Shakes Up Masthead

POLITICO: Breitbart News Shakes Up Masthead

From Dylan Byers:

Breitbart News, the combative right-wing news and opinion network, will today announce “a fundamental restructuring” of its masthead that will leave the 27-year-old Alexander Marlow in charge of editorial operations, POLITICO has learned.

Editor-in-chief Joel Pollak, editor-at-large Ben Shapiro and editor Peter Schweizer will become “Senior Editors-At-Large,” meaning they will devote less time to running the editorial side and more time to writing.

Marlow, who served as founder Andrew Breitbart’s editorial assistant for four years, will take the reins as editor-in-chief. Wynton Hall, a former visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (where Schwizer is a research fellow), will be named managing editor. Kurt Bardella, the former aide to Rep. Darrell Issa, will become senior communications adviser.

Breitbart.com was founded by Andrew Breitbart, the late conservative provocateur, in 2007 and continued to expand even after his death in 2012. Though rarely taken seriously by the Beltway press corps because of its partisan agenda and senstionalism, the site receives far more traffic than many of its competitors, including The New York Post, Daily Beast and The Atlantic websites, according to the web analytics service Alexa. It also receives more traffic than conservative sites like The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, National Review, The Weekly Standard and The Washington Examiner.

Read the rest of the story at Politico.com.

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