Ricochet (website)
| Ricochet | |
|---|---|
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Ricochet.com logo | |
| Web address |
www |
| Slogan | Conservative Commentary and Community |
| Commercial? | Yes |
Type of site | Politics, conservative news and opinion |
| Registration | Optional, but is required to post and comment |
| Available in | English |
| Created by | Rob Long and Peter Robinson |
| Editor | Jon Gabriel[1] |
| Launched | 2010 |
Alexa rank |
 16,472 (United States April 2015)[2] |
| 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, each named for famous conservative figures: Calvin Coolidge ($5.00 a month, or $39.95 a year), Margaret Thatcher ($99.95 a year), and Ronald Reagan ($499.95 a year). Each level has additional benefits, such as more comment space, items from the Ricochet store, and special 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. If a post by a member is sufficiently well-written, poignant, or popular, it may be promoted to the Main Feed among the Ricochet contributors.
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 hundreds of thousands of hits every week. Some of these podcasts are produced in conjunction with Powerline Blog, National Review, and others.
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
- Jonah Goldberg
- Victor Davis Hanson
- John Yoo
- Richard Epstein
- Troy Senik
- Claire Berlinski
- Mona Charen
- Jay Nordlinger
- Mark Steyn
- Pat Sajak[8]
- Andrew Klavan
References
- ↑ Don Hauser. "Interview with Ricochet Editor Jon Gabriel". WIBC.
- ↑ "Ricochet.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "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.
- ↑ "Ricochet Member Tiers". Ricochet. Retrieved 2015-02-17.
- ↑ "Let Us Now Praise Pat Sajak". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 2015-02-17.