John F. Solomon - Wikipedia
John F. Solomon is an American media executive and columnist. He is currently vice president of digital video and an opinion contributor for
The Hill.
[1] He is known primarily for his tenure as an executive and editor-in-chief at
The Washington Times.[2] He has been accused of biased reporting in favor of conservatives, and of repeatedly manufacturing faux scandals
Until May 2018, he worked on news and investigative pieces for
The Hill.
[17] In October 2017, Solomon published an article on
The Hill about the
Uranium One controversy where he insinuated payments from Russians to the Clinton Foundation at the time when the Obama administration approved the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom.
[18] Solomon's story also focused on the alleged failures of the Department of Justice to investigate and report on the controversy, suggesting a cover-up.
[18] Subsequent to Solomon's reporting, the story "took off like wildfire in the right-wing media ecosystem," according to a 2018 study by scholars at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University.
[18] No evidence of any quid pro quo or other wrong-doing has surfaced.
[18]
In May 2018, the editor-in-chief of
The Hill, announced that Solomon would become an "opinion contributor" at
The Hill (he would remain executive vice president of digital video).
[17]This came in the wake of reports that Solomon's colleagues at
The Hill criticized Solomon's news reporting as lacking rigor and context
