Chris Ruddy
$0.9B
Born
Jan 28, 1965
Age
60
Source of Wealth
TV network
Residence
West Palm Beach, Florida
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Children
0
Education
Master of Science, London School of Economics; Bachelor of Arts, St. John's University
- Chris Ruddy is the founder and CEO of Boca Raton, Florida-based conservative news outlet Newsmax.
- He founded Newsmax in 1998 with a $25,000 investment from Mellon banking fortune heir Richard Mellon Scaife (d. 2014).
- Newsmax went public on the New York Stock Exchange in March 2025; Ruddy owns nearly a third of the company's shares.
- Ruddy launched Newsmax's cable news channel in 2014. In 2024, it was the fourth-largest news channel in the U.S. with 30 million regular viewers.
- Newsmax also has an online news site, a news app, a paid subscription and streaming service called Newsmax Plus and two print publications.
- Ruddy worked as a journalist at the New York Post and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review before launching Newsmax.
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