Available in English Alexa rank 7,145,933 (April 2014) | Created by Richard Kastelein, | |
Type of site News commentary, editorials Owner Free Press Group - V.O.F. Expathos, Groningen, Netherlands Website www.atlanticfreepress.com | ||
Atlantic Free Press, an online political website, was founded in September 2006 by Publisher Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in Groningen, Netherlands and published over 13,000 articles from over 250 progressive writers worldwide until its closing in October 2011.
Contents
The publication's mission according to the website was "...to dig out nuggets of truth from the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried public discourse today. AF Press provides a new venue for disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press."
One of the chief pipelines they claimed to use to disseminate the work was Google News but they also syndicated to Lexis Nexis, Ebsco, and many other networks via a deal with Newstex. Atlantic Free Press was also available on Amazon Kindle.
This site has sister publications at the Free Press Group - Pacific Free Press, Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque and Gorilla Radio which contains over 100 progressive podcasts by Pacific Free Press editor Chris Cook. Atlantic Free Press is a member of the Advertise Liberally Network at Blogads.
Atlantic Free Press has a library of hundreds of photoshops created from 2006-2008. Atlantic Free Press photoshop art was used by the University of California Davis, for the Center For the Study of Human Rights in the Americas.
According to the authors' list, 20 percent of the contributors are educated to Ph.D. level.
Atlantic Free Press was also covered in Killer Startups in 2008.
Contributors
Atlantic Free Press contributors included Ansar Abbasi, Chellis Glendinning, Cynthia Ann McKinney, Dahr Jamail, Danny Schechter, Dave Lindorff, David Rovics, David Swanson, Deepak Tripathi, Dennis Jett, Ed Naha, Eric Margolis, Ezra Nawi, Faisal Kutty, George Galloway, Gilad Atzmon, Harvey Wasserman, Helena Cobban, James Howard Kunstler, James Petras, James Ridgeway, Jason Leopold, Jerome Grossman, Joe Bageant, Juan Cole, Jules Siegel, Kenneth Ring, Kevin Pina, Larry C. Johnson, Linh Dinh, Mahmood Mamdani, Marjorie Cohn, Mark Crispin Miller, Medea Benjamin, Michael Haas, Mike Ferner, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Naomi Klein, Norman Solomon, Paul Krassner, Paul William Roberts, R.J. Eskow, Richard A. Falk, Richard C. Cook, Richard Kastelein, Robert Jensen, Rodrigue Tremblay, Roland Michel Tremblay, Sean Penn, Shahid Alam, Stan Goff, Tom Engelhardt, Tony Karon, Walter Brasch, Will Durst, William Blum, and Yvonne Ridley.
Popular articles
Atlantic Free Press's most popular articles from the 2006-2008 period are "Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize?" by Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D., "Trends for Downsizing the US: The Bright Side of the Panic of ‘08" by Christopher Ketcham, "Israeli best seller breaks national taboo - Israeli academic and historian says Jewish Nation myth" by Jonathan Cook, and "Leave No Rapacious Twit Behind: Soft Landing for the Elite, Hard Cheese for Everybody Else" by Chris Floyd.
Closing
Atlantic Free Press closed on Friday 14 October 2011. The editor-in-chief, Richard Kastelein, cited financial burden and personal time limitations as reasons for the closing. At the time of closing, the Atlantic Free Press had published over 13,000 articles. Pacific Free Press carried the torch after the closing, and as of April 2013 is still active.
Traffic
Atlantic Free Press is in the Top 100,000 websites according to Quantcast with a ranking of 88,621. The site has a Google Pagerank of 6. Atlantic Free Press is in the top 190 thousand .com sites according to serversiders.com and over 2000 websites link to the site according to Google.
Social media
Atlantic Free Press Tweets automatically using Twitterfeed and RSS to the Free Press Group Twitter page as well as The Free Press Group Twitter stream.