Outlet profile

Apollo News

German right (conservative / right-populist)

Owned byPrivately run German outlet based in Berlin. The founders, including editor-in-chief Max Mannhart, run it. The website does not clearly disclose its legal ownership structure or a full leadership team. It has no known large parent company.

FundingMainly reader donations and advertising. It has no known state funding or single billionaire backer, but it publishes little about its finances.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Apollo News began in 2018 as a blog started in Berlin by student journalists, including Max Mannhart, who is now editor-in-chief. It grew into one of the more prominent alternative or right-leaning news sites in Germany. Its editorial line has been described as conservative, right-wing populist or right-libertarian, and it often covers topics such as migration, climate policy, and criticism of mainstream media and left-leaning parties. Critics, including German anti-extremism and civil-society groups such as the Amadeu Antonio Foundation's Belltower.News, have described it as part of the right-wing media ecosystem. The outlet says it is independent and financed by donations and ads. It has been in legal disputes over its reporting, such as a case involving Sven Hüber. In July 2026 the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that Apollo News and Junge Freiheit journalists were attacked while covering protests in Germany. Because it is mainly a German-language outlet, I could not find enough evidence of how it covers the second Trump administration. Right-leaning German outlets are often more sympathetic to Trump-aligned positions on some topics, but this is an assumption, not something I verified for this outlet. This profile assumes you mean the German outlet, since the name search returned no U.S. outlet by this name.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-25; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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