Al Jazeera is launching a conservative news platform with a cutesy millennial name

Al Jazeera headquarters.
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At long last, Americans on the center-right may finally have a media home.

Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based international news organization, is planning a U.S.-focused digital media platform "reaching center-right folks who feel left out of mainstream media," Politico first reported Tuesday. It has a cutesy name reminiscent of 2013, and seems to target an audience that hasn't had much power since then either.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.