Drudge Report

The Drudge Report is a conservative[2][3][4][5][6] news aggregation website. Run by Matt Drudge with the help of Andrew Breitbart, the site consists mainly of links to stories from the United States and international mainstream media about politics, entertainment, and current events as well as links to many columnists.

Occasionally, Drudge authors news stories himself based on tips. The Report originated in 1996 as a weekly subscriber-based email dispatch.[1] It was most famous for being the first news source to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the public after Newsweek decided not to publish the story.
The Drudge Report started as a gossip column focusing on Hollywood and Washington, D.C.[9] Matt Drudge began the email-based newsletter called Report from an apartment in Hollywood, California, using his connections with industry and media insiders to break stories, sometimes before they hit the mainstream media. Drudge maintains the website from his home in Miami Beach, Florida, with help from Andrew Breitbart, who assists in story selection and headline writing.[10] Breitbart, who describes himself as "Matt Drudge’s bitch",[11] works the afternoon shift at the Drudge Report,[12] as well as running his own website (breitbart.com), and another website (BigHollywood.com) providing a conservative support system for people in the Los Angeles entertainment industry.[13]

Drudge, who began his website in 1997 as a supplement to his $10/year email newsletter,[14] received national attention in 1996 when he broke the news that Jack Kemp would be Republican Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential election. In 1998, Drudge made national waves when he broke the news that Newsweek magazine had information on an inappropriate relationship between "a White House intern" and President Bill Clinton (the Monica Lewinsky scandal), but was withholding publication.[15][16] After Drudge's report, Newsweek published the story.[17]