Famous 5: Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard – FamousDC: Political Wire‘s Taegan Goddard was nice enough to answer a few questions for one of our Famous 5 interviews. Please enjoy the interview and the Yankees trash talk. A lot of us know Political Wire. We get the pithy headlines and the twice-daily email updates. But tell who are you …
S2E16 TAEGAN GODDARD (@politcalwire) founder of Political Wire! – #POOLIGANS: On today’s episode we’re proud to welcome TAEGAN GODDARD, founder of one of the most influential and earliest political websites: www.politicalwire.com, the best news aggregator on the internet. Taegan looks back at 20 years of running what was a …
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Taegan Goddard was inspired to create Political Wire by a print Wall Street Journal column called Washington Wire. political wire is one of the oldest and most influential political blogs and news aggregate sites on the internet based in the Goddard created the site for people who like politics to the same degree that he does and also enjoy it almost as a game . “it’s for the same people who, going back a dozen years, always wanted blog topics are typically drawn from a curated list of writers rather than websites . left and right sources include the democratic forum Daily Kos and the conservative blog Hot Air . by 2016, it was attracting upwards of 10,000 readers per Goddard says he’s fiercely independent in his views and “not a joiner by nature” the agreement expired in 2013 . Political Wire’s twitter site has received acclaim outside the country . Goddard has appeared as a guest to discuss political headlines on The Daily Beast and MSNBC . he has also been a panelist for numerous political roundtables .
