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Mediaite

U.S. media-industry news site; center-left by some raters, with a mixed range of voices

Owned byOwned by Abrams Media, founded by Dan Abrams. Abrams is the owner and publisher. Mediaite is part of the Abrams Media Network, which also includes the legal news site Law&Crime.
FundingMostly digital advertising. It also sells subscriptions, according to secondary summaries. The company is privately held and its finances are not public.
On the administrationmixed

Background

Dan Abrams launched Mediaite in July 2009 with founding editor Colby Hall. It began as a site about the news media and TV personalities, and it grew into a broader political and media news outlet. It is still privately owned by Abrams, whose other ventures include Law&Crime and a legal-analysis TV career. Abrams has said Donald Trump's presidency and his focus on the press helped drive a large increase in traffic. Reported traffic was about 11.9 million monthly unique visitors in January 2017. Abrams has publicly argued that the media should regain credibility by acknowledging Trump's successes where warranted and by covering his second term more even-handedly. Mediaite's staff includes writers with a range of political views, and its output is heavily aggregation of TV moments, which critics call clip-driven or sensationalist. Raters such as Media Bias/Fact Check and AllSides assess it as leaning somewhat left, but the site publishes opinion from several perspectives. Treat these rater labels as outside judgments, not settled facts. I did not verify the details of its recent coverage and based this profile on the sources below and background knowledge.

Sources

  1. Mediaite (Wikipedia)
  2. Mediaite - About Us
  3. Mediaite Founder Dan Abrams Credits Trump With Traffic 'Explosion' - TheWrap
  4. Dan Abrams Says Media Needs To 'Give Credit' To Donald Trump - Mediaite
  5. Mediaite - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  6. Mediaite Media Bias - AllSides
  7. Dan Abrams Has the Scars to Prove It - The Hollywood Reporter

Profile compiled 2026-10-28; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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