Ricochet (website)
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Ricochet.com logo | |
Type of site | Politics, conservative news and opinion |
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| Available in | English |
| Created by | Rob Long and Peter Robinson |
| Editor | Jon Gabriel[1] |
| Slogan(s) | Conservative Commentary and Community |
| Website |
www |
| Alexa rank |
 11,475 (United States November 2015)[2] |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional, but is required to post and comment |
| Launched | 2010 |
| Current status | Online |
Ricochet.com is a website dedicated to conservative news and commentary created in 2010 by television writer Rob Long and former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson. The website resembles social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter through its use of "feeds," on which members and site contributors are able to post, comment, and interact with one another.[3][4]
History
Ricochet was created by Rob Long and Peter Robinson in 2010. The two collaborated on a previous project called RobinsonAndLong.com [5][6] in 2008, which is now defunct. Two years later, Robinson and Long decided to rebrand their website idea and created Ricochet.com.[3]
Features
Ricochet requires users to pay an annual membership fee in order to post, comment, or view full articles. There are three membership levels named for three famous conservative figures: Calvin Coolidge, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan. Each level has additional benefits, such as more comment space, items from the Ricochet store, and members-only podcasts.[7]
Ricochet features many prominent figures from the conservative and libertarian movement in the United States, including Peter Robinson, John Yoo, Richard Epstein, Mona Charen, and others. Featured commentators post regularly on the "Main Feed." Any member of Ricochet may also post on the website, but the posts are put into the "Member Feed," separate from the Main Feed, which is displayed on the home page. Members may recommend a member-written story, and the member-written story will then be promoted to the main feed if it is crosses a threshold of member recommendations.
In addition to posts, Ricochet also hosts several podcasts by conservative and libertarian figures, covering issues like money, law, current events, and culture. Podcasts from Ricochet regularly garner millions of downloads each week.[8] Some of these podcasts are produced in conjunction with Powerline Blog, National Review, and similar organizations.
Ricochet is affiliated with several center-right organizations and publications, such as the Hoover Institution, National Review, Commentary Magazine, and others, with several fellows and writers from these organizations publishing on Ricochet or hosting podcasts.
List of Contributors
This is a list (not exhaustive) of contributors to Ricochet:
- Peter Robinson
- Rob Long
- James Lileks
- John Podhoretz
- Jon Gabriel (Editor In Chief of Ricochet)
- Jonah Goldberg
- Cameron Gray
- James Pethokoukis
- Victor Davis Hanson
- John Yoo
- Richard Epstein
- Troy Senik
- Claire Berlinski
- Kevin Creighton
- Mona Charen
- Jay Nordlinger
- Mark Steyn
- Pat Sajak[9]
- Andrew Klavan
References
- ↑ Don Hauser. "Interview with Ricochet Editor Jon Gabriel". WIBC.
- ↑ "Ricochet.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
- 1 2 "Ricochet.com: A 'clever and cunning' new brand of conservatism?". The Week. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
- ↑ "Can Ricochet Make Conservatism Fun Again?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
- ↑ "Announcing Robinson and Long". DartBlog. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
- ↑ "Peter Robinson Remembers His Friend...". . Retrieved 2015-02-17. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Ricochet Member Tiers". Ricochet. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
- ↑ http://www.wired.com/2016/07/conservative-podcasts-ricochet/
- ↑ "Let Us Now Praise Pat Sajak". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 2015-02-17.