“Trump has taken over VOA, Radio Free Europe, etc…planting loyalists, firing critical journalists. He can’t do that with Stripes so he’s just…zeroing out the budget.”
The veterans-focused site, born out of a jobs board, is expanding beyond its original conception with original reporting, a growing staff of full-time writers, and its own revenue streams.
“If every guy that needs something to do for 30 seconds on his phone starts reading War on the Rocks, we’re doing something wrong. I want this to be a publication that you need if you work on national security.”
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Owen, Laura Hazard. "War on the Rocks is a national security site for a military “tribe” that knows what it’s talking about." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 30 Mar. 2017. Web. 18 Apr. 2024.
APA
Owen, L. (2017, Mar. 30). War on the Rocks is a national security site for a military “tribe” that knows what it’s talking about. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/war-on-the-rocks-is-a-national-security-site-for-a-military-tribe-that-knows-what-its-talking-about/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "War on the Rocks is a national security site for a military “tribe” that knows what it’s talking about." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 30, 2017. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/war-on-the-rocks-is-a-national-security-site-for-a-military-tribe-that-knows-what-its-talking-about/.
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