National News Outlet Being Launched in Omaha
When it comes to major media news operations, I don’t think people look at Omaha as the location of these.
But, billionaire businessman and philanthropist Joe Ricketts is preparing another venture into the news business, and he’s chosen Omaha as his launching pad.
Ricketts is hiring staff to launch an online national news outlet called Straight Arrow News that he said will do what other outlets aren’t doing — providing news without a political slant.
“I think there’s a gap in the market — there’s no source for unbiased, fact-based news. And I believe there’s a business opportunity there,” he said.
“Some people say you can’t have unbiased news. I want to prove them wrong with Straight Arrow News,” he said.
Rickets is known as a leading funder of national conservative causes, so excuse us if we take the “unbiased news” with a grain of salt.
Modern technology, Ricketts said, allows such an operation to be based anywhere there’s talent. And, he said, “there’s no place with more talented people than Omaha.”
What is interesting about that quote is a consultant working on the start-up reached out to a talent in Washington, DC to see if they would be interested in working on the show in Omaha. It seems that the start-up is also looking to import their “ talented people” to Omaha.
They are setting February as the month it will launch.
We’re guessing it will be later than that.
Stay tuned….