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Medical Daily

U.S. center, health and science news (largely apolitical)

Owned byPublished by Medical Daily Inc., a privately held New York company. The outlet was launched in 2013 by IBT Media, the company behind International Business Times. Current ownership is unclear from public sources: some business directories list a separate Medical Daily Inc. with Dong-Chan Kim as principal, while other histories place it with IBT Media.
FundingMainly online advertising and sponsored or affiliate content. It has no known subscription paywall, outside investors, or donor funding.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Medical Daily launched in 2013 as part of IBT Media's expansion beyond International Business Times. The same period saw the launch of HollywoodTake and Latin Times. IBT Media was co-founded in 2006 by Etienne Uzac and Johnathan Davis, and it bought Newsweek in 2013. In 2017 the company renamed itself Newsweek Media Group. Its owners then came under a Manhattan District Attorney fraud investigation, and the newsroom was raided in January 2018. In 2018 the company split into Newsweek and IBT Media, and IBT Media kept Medical Daily along with International Business Times and Latin Times. Some business directories date Medical Daily to 2010 and list Medical Daily Inc. as a separate private company in New York, so the present ownership arrangement is not verified here. The site's content is mostly short explainers, research summaries and wellness pieces, often drawn from journal studies and press releases. It has a small editorial team and relies on web traffic, so it has been criticized, like similar sites, for headline-driven health coverage. Its perspective is mainstream and consumer-oriented, and it takes no consistent ideological position. When it covers health policy under the second Trump administration, such as Medicaid, vaccines or public health agencies, it tends to report the news without strong editorializing.

Sources

  1. IBT Media - Wikipedia
  2. Newsweek Media Group Splits into Separate Companies: Newsweek, IBT Media - MediaPost
  3. About Us - Medical Daily
  4. Medical Daily Inc. Company Profile - Dun & Bradstreet
  5. Medical Daily 2026 Company Profile - PitchBook
  6. Newsweek - Wikipedia

Profile compiled 2026-10-08; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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