Lee Stranahan
Introduction
Lee Stranahan is an American journalist and radio talk show host currently working for Sputnik, a Russian government-controlled news agency. He was the lead investigative reporter for Breitbart News, and has written previously for The Huffington Post and The Daily Kos.
In 2008, Lee Stranahan was banned for making posts over John Edwards's scandal on Huffington Post and The Daily Kos. In 2012, he received threats of physical violence after a screening of Occupy Unmasked. In 2013, Lee was an active critic of Deric Lostutter's 'KYAnonymous campaign'. He left Breitbart News in 2013 and was re-hired. In 2014 he was fired from Breitbart News on what he disputed as false allegations. In July 2016, Lee Stranahan was arrested for covering a protest over the death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Third Departure from Breitbart
In April of 2017 Stranahan announced he had resigned from his position at Breitbart News -- the third such time he'd either quit or been fired from the organization. Stranahan had been attending the briefings for several weeks while identifying himself as a Breitbart reporter and trying to ask White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer a question about Crowdstrike, the IT firm that handled the Democratic National Committee's servers during the 2016 election.
Radio Talk Show host at Sputnik
In April 2017, Stranahan announced that he was the co-host of a new radio show for Sputnik Radio called Fault Lines with Nixon and Stranahan.
Founder/Creator of Citizen Journalism School
In 2017, Stranahan launched Citizen Journalism School, an online school for those pursuing journalism, in order to follow up on an idea that he and Andrew Breitbart had.
Filmography
- 2012: Occupy Unmasked as Journalist