Alex Marlow

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alex Marlow 2017

Alexander Mason Marlow (born January 24, 1986 in Los Angeles ) is an American journalist and currently the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News .

Career

Alex Marlow, who is of Jewish descent, grew up in Los Angeles in one of the better enclaves, attended Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City until 2004 and then studied at the University of California, Berkeley after graduating . His major was political science and his minor was music. He was hired by Andrew Breitbart as the first employee of Breitbart News while he was still a student, which he successfully completed in 2008 .

Was done in the early days, when the work for the online medium effectively from Breitbart's basement out, Marlow had claims to be primarily a "glorified personal assistant" ( english It was mostly being a glorified personal assistant ), whose editorial tasks in parallel with the The increasing success of Breitbart News grew.

He took on editorial responsibility for the medium in 2012, but did not claim the title of editor-in-chief until a year later. After a number of relevant employees left the editorial office within a comparatively short period of time, including Steve Bannon , Sebastian Gorka and Julia Hahn (also alumni of the Harvard-Westlake School) in the direction of the White House as well as Katie McHugh and Milo Yiannopoulos , he recorded according to New York Times - by industry standards - did a good job of advancing and promoting women and ethnic minorities to senior positions.

Private

In one portrait, the New York Times introduced Marlow as a “ craft beer enthusiast”.

He lives in Washington and is married to Christina.

reception

From Forbes he was listed in 2015 by the US business magazine Forbes in the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the "Media" category. In the portrait, the renowned daily newspaper also stated that Marlow was referred to by “people close to him” as either “withdrawn”, “misanthropist” or “recluse”, who spoke to the Breitbart News staff primarily by phone, SMS or E -Mail communicate.

For a long time, his former school was unaware that their alumnus was the editor-in-chief of Breitbart. Those responsible only became aware of this in 2016, when Marlow appeared in a portrait of Steve Bannon in New York's and a teacher published the post on the school's Facebook profile - according to his own statements, to refer to his contribution to the text. The controversy that followed from the publication - Marlow was mentioned in the comments and a. as "a shame for our school and our fantastic community" ( English an embarrassment to our school, and to our fantastic community ) - was extensively documented in the school newspaper The Chronicle .

In a detailed portrait in 2017. Marlow was described as the "most important figure of the counterculture," which the US Berkeley since the Free Speech Movement has produced ( English the most consequential countercultural figure to come out of UC Berkeley since the Free Speech Movement ).

According to former employees, Marlow was at Breitbart's time at Breitbart in the sense of good cop , bad cop, the "good cop" who had concerns about Bannon's editorial thrust. Marlow himself described the assumption that he contradicted Bannon as "absolutely wrong". Regardless of this, former employees were generally positive about Marlow on CNN and particularly emphasized his talent as a headline writer and his flair for stories that resonate with readers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Salvador Hernandez: Alums Of An Exclusive Los Angeles School Are Battling Over Breitbart. In: buzzfeednews.com. November 16, 2016, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Wil S. Hylton: Down the Breitbart Hole. In: nytimes.com. August 16, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Alexander Marlow. In: redalertpolitics.com. April 14, 2015, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Scott Lucas: From Berkeley to Breitbart ( Memento June 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: modernluxury.com . January 26, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Jason M. Breslow: The FRONTLINE Interview: Alex Marlow. In: pbs.org. May 23, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Alexander Marlow, 28. In: forbes.com. Accessed March 3, 2019 .
  7. ^ Peter Maass: Birth of a Radical. In: theintercept.com. March 23, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ben Terris: Who is Julia Hahn? The unlikely rise of Steve Bannon's right-hand woman. In: washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2017, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Danielle Spitz: Alum's position as Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief sparks controversy - The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle. In: hwchronicle.com. November 23, 2016, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Tom Kludt: Meet the 30 year old running Breitbart News. In: money.cnn.com. September 1, 2016, accessed March 3, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Marlow, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marlow, Alexander Mason (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles