Christopher Ruddy was born on January 28,1965 and is an American journalist who is the CEO and majority owner of Newsmax Media.
30 Facts About Christopher Ruddy
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Christopher Ruddy earned a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as an undergrad.
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Christopher Ruddy worked briefly as a bilingual high school social studies teacher in the Bronx, New York.
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Christopher Ruddy holds an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from St John's University.
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Early in his career, Christopher Ruddy was editor in chief of a conservative monthly periodical known as the New York Guardian.
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Christopher Ruddy's father confirmed, as an eyewitness to the liberation of Dachau, what Paul Parks had described in the documentary that Ruddy had claimed to be without evidence.
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Christopher Ruddy then moved to the New York Post, which he joined as an investigative reporter late in the summer of 1993.
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Christopher Ruddy has studied as a Media Fellow with the Hoover Institution.
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Christopher Ruddy serves on the board of directors of the Financial Publishers Association, an industry trade group whose goal is "to share knowledge of best business practices to help our members' publications grow and prosper, while empowering readers with unbiased, independent information".
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Christopher Ruddy is a member of the International Council, chaired by Henry Kissinger, at the CSIS, a bipartisan Washington, DC, think tank focused on national security and foreign affairs.
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Christopher Ruddy served as a representative on the US delegation headed by Senators Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham to the NATO 44th Munich Security Conference.
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From 2009 to 2013, Christopher Ruddy served on the board of directors of the American Swiss Foundation, a nonprofit organization that fosters relations between the two countries.
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Christopher Ruddy has been both a "Patron" and a "Sustaining Donor" to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Christopher Ruddy is an alumnus of the American Swiss Foundation.
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Christopher Ruddy then owned a 60 percent stake, with the rest owned by Scaife as a silent partner.
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In November 1994, Christopher Ruddy was hired to investigate the story full-time by the Tribune-Review.
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Christopher Ruddy claimed that Park Police had staged the scene of Foster's death as described in their reports.
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One of the officers named by Christopher Ruddy sued him along with the Western Journalism Center, seeking $2 million in damages for libel.
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Christopher Ruddy later built on his work on the Foster case for his book The Strange Death of Vincent Foster.
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Christopher Ruddy ended his investigative reporting after founding Newsmax, but continues to write an occasional blog while he shapes overall editorial policy.
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Christopher Ruddy describes himself as a libertarian conservative and "Reaganite", though he is not registered as a Republican.
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For example, Christopher Ruddy broke with the Bush administration on the Iraq War, and was one of the first conservatives to do so.
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The Palm Beach Post interview noted that Christopher Ruddy, disenchanted by the war and runaway federal spending under Bush, re-evaluated the Clinton years and offered a kinder view of the administration he once criticized.
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Christopher Ruddy said she had moderated and no longer generated the same animosity among conservatives.
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Newsweek reported Christopher Ruddy praised Clinton for his foundation's global work, and explained that the interview, as well as a private lunch he and Scaife had had with Clinton, were due to the shared view of himself and Scaife that Clinton was doing important work representing the US globally while America was the target of criticism.
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Christopher Ruddy told the Times though he remained a "Reagan conservative", he had re-evaluated the Clinton presidency and suggested he had earned high marks as president for success in ending welfare, keeping government in check, and supporting free trade.
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Christopher Ruddy noted that the Clinton Foundation was doing remarkable work globally.
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Christopher Ruddy realizes that Saturday is a free media day for him.
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On June 12,2017, Christopher Ruddy claimed that Trump met with Robert Mueller to offer him the job of FBI Director just days before it was announced that he would be appointed special counsel for the Russian investigation.
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Christopher Ruddy claimed in the same interview that Trump was considering terminating Mueller's position as special prosecutor.