Breitbart News is an American conservative news and opinion website associated with the digital conservative media network founded by Andrew Breitbart. ABC News described Breitbart, after his March 2012 death, as a conservative publisher who had founded a news network including Breitbart.com, Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism, and Big Peace.[1] Media researchers and news organizations have also described Breitbart as part of a broader right-wing or far-right media ecosystem, including a 2017 Columbia Journalism Review analysis that identified Breitbart as the center of a distinct right-wing media ecosystem and a 2017 Voice of America report that called it a far-right website under Steve Bannon's recent leadership.[2][3] Breitbart's masthead listed Alexander Marlow as editor-in-chief in 2026.[4]
Ben Shapiro's early national conservative-media career included a period at Breitbart News in 2012. Encyclopaedia Britannica's summary of Shapiro's career describes Breitbart News as a conservative news site and says Shapiro became an editor at large there in 2012.[5]
In March 2016, Shapiro and reporter Michelle Fields resigned amid Breitbart's handling of Fields's dispute with Donald Trump's presidential campaign. CBS/AP reported that a Breitbart reporter and one of the site's top editors resigned over what they said was the site's reaction to the dispute, and identified Shapiro as Breitbart editor at large.[6] NPR's Bill Chappell likewise reported that Fields and editor-at-large Shapiro resigned, and that Shapiro criticized Steve Bannon's stewardship of Andrew Breitbart's legacy in his resignation statement.[7]