''Heat Street'' was a news, opinion and commentary website based in the

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. The website was launched in April 2016 by U.S.-based British writer and former politician

Louise Mensch Louise Daphne Mensch ('' née'' Bagshawe; born 28 June 1971) is a British blogger, novelist, and former Conservative Member of Parliament. In the 1990s she became known as a writer of chick lit novels under her maiden name Louise Bagshawe. She ...

. It was owned by News Corp under Dow Jones & Company and featured sections on politics, technology, culture, business, entertainment, and life. News Corporation announced that the site would shut down on August 4, 2017, to become part of MarketWatch.Rupert Murdoch is closing 'punky libertarian' website Heat Street after little more than a year

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, 30 June 2017 The website has been described as center-right and libertarian.

Organization overview

Founding

Mensch had first been exploring the idea of creating a blog under News Corp for about three years before it was pitched to Dow Jones CEO Will Lewis as a "libertarian '' Huffington Post''". News Corp CEO Robert Thompson signed off on the project in late 2015. The website was announced in February 2016. It launched officially on April 20, 2016, headed by British journalist

and television executive Noah Kotch.

Miles Goslett Miles Goslett is a journalist. He has worked for the ''Evening Standard'', the ''Sunday Telegraph'' and the ''Mail on Sunday''. He was the U.K. editor for Heat Street. Career Goslett has won the 'Scoop of the Year' award four times: once at t ...

was hired as the site's UK editor in January 2016, prior to the site's launch. By ''Heat Streets seventh month of publication, it reported 8 million unique users to the site. Mensch left ''Heat Street'' in mid-December 2016 and launched her own political blog, ''

Patribotics ''Patribotics'' is the blog of British-American blogger, novelist and ex-politician Louise Mensch. The blog was launched in January 2017. In addition to hosting articles by Mensch, the site has occasionally hosted articles by Laurelai Bailey, and ...

'', in January 2017, stating that she prefers the free hand self-publishing provides.

Content

The site, which was housed under News Corp.'s Dow Jones & Company, used a more informal tone than other sites run by the company, such as the ''

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'' Jennifer Harper described the site as follows: "The politics here are right-leaning and libertarian-minded; the publication also covers culture wars, commentary, technology, celebrity, business and assorted lifestyle matters." In 2016, Mensch said ''Heat Street'' was defined less by politics than by "culture wars". The site has run articles sympathetic to

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. Speaking to ''

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'', Mensch said the gaming community has been "maligned". In December 2016, Mensch and the James Madison Project filed suit against five intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division and the

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over withheld documents detailing evidence of Russian interference in the presidential election.

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