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Raw Story was founded as a counterpoint to the right-leaning Drudge Report. In its early days, the site was known for scooping larger media outlets on their own stories and breaking them before publication. During the presidential administration of George W. Bush, Raw Story identified a secret CIA black site in Poland that was used for renditions.

Raw Story joined the News Media Alliance, a nonprofit organization representing U.S. and Canadian news publishers, the same year. The following year, it sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, asserting that the ChatGPT creator trained its chatbot using copyrighted works by its journalists without crediting or citing them.

Raw Story was also named the best U.S. news and political blog by Editor & Publisher in 2023.

Raw Story aggregates stories from around the web and produces investigative reporting.

According to Editor & Publisher, Raw Story has "a long history of reporting on the darker corners of U.S. culture and politics." The site reports on the dark web and extremism, tracking the movements of the Proud Boys, the KKK and Neo-Nazi groups. "When groups of extremists began activating after [President] Trump's election loss in 2020... Raw Story was well ahead of the story," Editor & Publisher said in 2024.



In 2024, Raw Story also won a Dateline award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Online Commentary and Criticism, for "“How South Carolina's honor-bound military college camouflaged its connection to Rudy Giuliani."

And: https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/rudy-giuliani-news-the-citadel/