# Alexander Marlow Editor-in-chief of [[Breitbart News]], a position he has held since the site's early years, making him one of the longest-serving leaders in right-wing media. Marlow was mentored by [[Andrew Breitbart]], worked under [[Steve Bannon]]'s executive chairmanship, and has maintained the site's MAGA alignment through the post-Bannon era, various Trump conflicts, and the broader consolidation of conservative media. ## Early Career and Andrew Breitbart Mentorship Marlow joined Breitbart as an intern while a student at UC Berkeley — an origin story he deploys frequently as a symbol of a conservative surviving in liberal academia. Andrew Breitbart personally mentored him and he rose rapidly through the organization. His longevity at Breitbart (over 15 years) makes him one of the institution's primary custodians of its founding culture and mission. ## Editorial Leadership As editor-in-chief through the Bannon era, the Trump presidency, the post-2020 election period, and the ongoing MAGA era, Marlow has navigated the site through significant changes: - Bannon's departure after the Wolff book controversy - Trump's own on-again/off-again relationship with Breitbart - Competition from [[The Daily Wire]], [[Newsmax]], and other right-wing media - The post-January 6 recalibration of MAGA media Marlow's editorial approach emphasizes the anti-establishment, anti-media crusade that Andrew Breitbart championed — "War" against what he calls the "Democrat-Media Complex." ## *Breaking the News* (2021) Marlow authored *Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption* (2021), a critique of mainstream media bias and corporate-media integration. The book extends the Breitbart institutional critique — that mainstream media is a partisan operation masquerading as neutral journalism — into a book-length argument with specific examples of what Marlow frames as corruption and conflicts of interest. The book's release gave Marlow a higher public profile beyond Breitbart's existing audience and positioned him as an intellectual voice for media criticism on the right. ## Position in the Ecosystem Marlow is the institutional guardian of the Breitbart project — maintaining it as a going concern, keeping it relevant as the conservative media landscape has shifted, and preserving the site's identity as an anti-establishment media insurgency even as it has become, paradoxically, part of the conservative establishment. His relationship with the [[Stephen Miller]] connection and the [[Tanton Network]]'s immigration content pipeline runs through his editorial leadership.