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The Daily Wire

Type of site	News, opinion, and media
Headquarters	Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Owner	DailyWire Ventures, LLC
Created by	Ben Shapiro Jeremy Boreing
Key people	Ben Shapiro (editor emeritus) Caleb Robinson (CEO) John Bickley (editor-in-chief)
Employees	115 (full-time)
Subsidiaries	Bentkey
Launched	September 21, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-09-21)
Current status	Active

The Daily Wire is an American conservative media company. It was started in 2015 by Ben Shapiro, a political commentator, and Jeremy Boreing, a film director. The company is well-known on Facebook and creates many podcasts, like The Ben Shapiro Show. The Daily Wire also makes films and video series. Its streaming service, DailyWire+, began in 2022. A special video platform for kids, Bentkey, launched in 2023. The Daily Wire's main office is in Nashville, Tennessee.

Some stories from The Daily Wire take news from other places and add a conservative point of view. People who check facts have said that some stories shared by The Daily Wire might not be fully checked. They also noted that the company sometimes changes facts to support a certain opinion.

How The Daily Wire Started and Grew

Ben Shapiro, who helped start The Daily Wire

The idea for The Daily Wire came from Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing. They both used to work for a news website called TruthRevolt. After getting money from brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, The Daily Wire officially started in 2015. Farris Wilks manages the company that publishes The Daily Wire.

The company first started in Los Angeles, California. It mainly earned money from advertisements. In September 2020, Ben Shapiro announced that The Daily Wire would move its main office to Nashville, Tennessee.

Becoming Popular on Social Media

The Daily Wire quickly became one of the most popular news sites on Facebook. In 2018, a company called NewsWhip said The Daily Wire was the top right-wing publisher on Facebook. By March 2019, it was the sixth most popular English-language publisher on Facebook. It also had many articles among Facebook's top stories. In 2021, The Daily Wire's stories received more likes, shares, and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher.

In April 2019, The Ben Shapiro Show was ranked the second most listened-to podcast in the U.S. This was just behind The Daily.

Changes and New Projects

In June 2020, Ben Shapiro stepped down as the main editor. He became an "editor emeritus," which means he still has an important role but not the day-to-day duties. John Bickley became the new editor-in-chief.

In January 2021, Shapiro announced that The Daily Wire was starting a studio for TV and films. The goal was to create content that did not promote certain political ideas. Their first original movie, Shut In, came out in 2022.

In September 2021, Shapiro and Boreing said The Daily Wire would not follow a U.S. government rule about certain health requirements for companies. The company later filed a lawsuit. The Supreme Court eventually decided that the rule was not lawful.

In 2021, The Daily Wire also announced a new book publishing part called DW Books. It planned to release books by authors like Shapiro and Candace Owens. This was part of a trend where conservative authors started their own publishing channels.

Growth and New Ventures

By early 2022, The Daily Wire's yearly earnings were over $100 million. It had 150 employees. In March 2022, The Daily Wire announced it would spend at least $100 million on children's entertainment. This was a response to Disney's stance on a Florida law.

In June 2022, The Daily Wire launched DailyWire+. This is a video on demand platform. It features many of The Daily Wire's podcasts and video shows. By November 2022, the company had over 1,000,000 paid subscribers.

In October 2023, on the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney starting his company, Jeremy Boreing announced a kids' content service called Bentkey. This service launched on the same day. It includes some of the children's content they had planned, like Chip Chilla. Bentkey's first full-length movie was announced as a live-action version of Snow White, called Snow White and the Evil Queen.

In March 2025, Jeremy Boreing stepped down as co-CEO. In May 2025, Mike Richards was announced as the next president of The Daily Wire.

Podcasts and Radio Shows

The Daily Wire creates several podcasts. These include The Ben Shapiro Show, The Michael Knowles Show, The Matt Walsh Show, and The Andrew Klavan Show.

The The Ben Shapiro Show became even more popular in April 2018. A company called Westwood One started sharing the podcast with radio stations. By March 2019, the show was on over 200 radio stations.

In 2020, The Daily Wire gained all the content from PragerU, another media organization.

In November 2020, Candace Owens, a commentator, announced she would join The Daily Wire. Her show, Candace, started on March 19, 2021. It features weekly episodes filmed in front of a live audience. Guests have included former president Donald Trump.

In October 2021, The Daily Wire hired Allison Williams. She had left ESPN because of a company rule about health requirements. The Daily Wire promoted her hiring as "sports without the woke." Williams later returned to sports reporting with Fox Sports in August 2022. In February 2022, The Daily Wire started a sports show called Crain & Company.

In March 2022, they launched a YouTube channel called The Comments Section with Brett Cooper. After Cooper left the company in December 2024, Reagan Rohrbach became the new host.

In 2022, DailyWire+ also began airing The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.

Current Personalities

• Ben Shapiro (also a co-founder)
• Michael Knowles
• Matt Walsh
• Andrew Klavan
• Jordan Peterson
• Reagan Conrad
• Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone (hosts of Crain & Company)
• Georgia Howe
• Isabel Brown

Former Personalities

• Candace Owens (2021–2024)
• Brett Cooper (2022–2024)

Documentaries

The Daily Wire has made several documentaries. These include the Matt Walsh documentaries What Is a Woman? (released June 1, 2022) and Am I Racist? (released September 13, 2024). Convicting a Murderer is a 2023 true-crime series hosted by Candace Owens for The Daily Wire. Other documentaries include The Greatest Lie Ever Sold by Candace Owens and Logos and Literacy by Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Entertainment and Films

The Daily Wire has also moved into entertainment. Michael Knowles and Jeremy Boreing have performed songs together as a band called Smokey Mike & The god-king.

In January 2021, The Daily Wire released Run Hide Fight. This was a drama film about a school shooting. It was available only to Daily Wire subscribers in North America. In November, they launched Adam Carolla Truth Yeller, a comedy podcast with a live audience.

On February 10, 2022, The Daily Wire's first original film, Shut In, premiered on YouTube. It was directed by D.J. Caruso. After getting rights to The Hyperions, a superhero comedy, the company showed the film for free on YouTube on March 10, 2022. Later, it moved to The Daily Wire site for exclusive viewing.

Terror on the Prairie, a western film starring Gina Carano, was released to subscribers on June 14, 2022.

On June 29, 2022, The Daily Wire launched the video on demand platform DailyWire+. This platform features various Daily Wire podcasts and video shows. They also announced an animated preschool series called Chip Chilla, which features the voice of comedian Rob Schneider. On November 3, My Dinner with Trump, a documentary featuring Donald Trump and his advisors, was released exclusively on the platform.

In November 2022, The Daily Wire announced plans to create adaptations of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged and Stephen R. Lawhead's series The Pendragon Cycle. The Pendragon Cycle began filming in September 2023. It is planned for release in 2024. The series will be co-directed by Jeremy Boreing and will star Tom Sharp and YouTuber Brett Cooper.

Films

Television Series

Products and Brands

In March 2022, co-CEO Jeremy Boreing started a line of shaving razors called Jeremy's Razors. This was to compete with another company. In March 2023, Boreing also began selling Jeremy's Chocolate bars. This happened after another chocolate company used a transgender woman as a spokesperson for International Women's Day.

See also

In Spanish: The Daily Wire para niños