Молодые Турки: Американское прогрессивное новостное шоу

American online news show
the political commentary web series

The Young Turks (TYT) is an American progressive news commentary show on YouTube that additionally appears on selected television channels. TYT serves as the flagship program of the TYT Network, a multi channel network of associated web series focusing on news and current events. TYT covers politics, lifestyle, pop culture, science, sport and other social topics. it is also often accompanied by various other in studio contributors. The Young Turks began as a radio program that premiered on February 14, 2002, on Sirius Satellite Radio before launching a web series component in 2005 on YouTube; it was later carried on Air America. In addition to being carried on the TYT Network and YouTube, it is also currently available on Amazon Prime Direct, iTunes, Hulu, Roku, on Pluto TV through a 24 hour feed and on social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. from 2011 to 2013 and a second that debuted on Fusion in 2016 as a limited run program developed to cover the 2016 United States presidential election. The Young Turks also served as the subject of a documentary, entitled Mad as Hell, which was released in 2014. The network also has a channel on YouTube TV. The second hour generally provides social commentary on a wide range of topics, both domestic and foreign. The program also features a post game show, in which Uygur and Kasparian discuss their personal lives. Uygur has regular bits and on air interaction with other staff members who create and run the show, including among others Jesús Godoy, Dave Koller, Jayar Jackson and Steve Oh. Each Friday, The Young Turks features a panel of guests from the worlds of politics, journalism, pop culture, sports and comedy – dubbed the "TYT Power Panel" – that is led by Uygur and John Iadarola in the first hour, and Ugyur and/or Jayar Jackson in the second hour. Along with Iadarola and Jackson, other fill in hosts and recurring guests include series co creator/contributor Ben Mankiewicz, television personality Brian Unger, Becca Frucht, Brett Erlich, Wes Clark Jr., Michael Shure, Cara Santa Maria, RJ Eskow, Gina Grad, Samantha Schacher, and Jayde Lovell.

The Young Turks was the first daily streaming online talk show, having begun airing in that format in 2006, At roughly the same time, Jill Pike left to pursue a job in Washington, D. C. Ana Kasparian, then working as an intern for the program, was hired to do pop culture focused segments. Mankiewicz eventually returned to The Young Turks as a regular correspondent. During the 2008 elections, the show developed close ties to Brave New Films. The program aired commercials for the independent film production company and featured actors such as Robert Greenwald and Jonathan Kim as guests. The success of TYT is due to a large extent of their shift from radio to the internet through the broadcast of programming content on online platforms. By 2010, TYT employed people and maintained a budget resembling the size of a small newspaper. which features much of the same content that is already available for free through the program's YouTube channel, which has over 4.2 million subscribers and generates 50 million monthly views. The network is among the few online channels to generate more than 1 billion views since launching on YouTube, which does not market a channel on the Roku app store. Young Turks COO Steve Oh acknowledged that making the TYT Network available on Roku was the first part of a strategy to continue the network's growth, regardless of what medium in which its viewers are watching its content, with the intent to figure out a way to monetize its programming through multiple distribution channels, rather than relying on one or two larger channels (such as YouTube or cable television distribution). The network also announced plans to unveil native apps for iOS and Android devices. Oh also noted that the network's representatives were speaking with other media platforms about expanding its programming. In April 2014, The Young Turks began offering its content on Hulu. With this, it began providing a condensed 30 minute version of the program featuring excerpts from the full two hour daily show, along with a 30 minute weekly version of its daily pop culture show PopTrigger, with other shows being added shortly afterward. Oh stated on the Hulu launch that, "as TYT Network has grown from a single show to an entire network, we've consistently found ways to bring our shows to more people[ ] We've long admired Hulu as a leader of online video and both parties saw an opportunity to bring digitally native politics and pop culture talk shows to Hulu's audience." He also stated that the company is pitching shows to cable network, but had no immediate plans to revive a television broadcast as either a relaunched program or a show similar in format to the one it formerly produced for Current TV. The website's yearly revenue was roughly US$3 million in 2013. According to Cenk Uygur, "about a third of the revenue comes from subscriptions, and the rest comes from YouTube ads." At that time, the company maintained a staff of 30 employees. In December 2016, TYT Network launched a crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise US$2 million for the hiring of four further investigative teams. Five months later, the aim was met. In August 2017, it was announced that The Young Turks have raised $20 million in venture capital from 3L Capital, WndrCo (owned by businessman Jeffrey Katzenberg), Greycroft, and e. ventures. TYT stated it would use the funds to "hire additional management execs and creative talent, as well as enhance its subscription video offering and expand marketing initiatives". Shawn Colo, managing partner of 3L Capital, joined the TYT Network's board. On January 21, 2018, TYT confirmed that it will show The News with Dan Rather, a half hour "untraditional evening newscast" weekly on Mondays in the time slot before the main Young Turks show.

On May 17, 2018, The Young Turks launched a 24 hour linear channel on YouTube TV which includes all of TYT's current shows and four new shows called The Damage Report, "#NoFilter","The Happy Half Hour" and "Old School Sports". The channel has since been made available on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Xumo as well.

In a September 2006 article, U. S. News & World Report contributing writer Paul Bedard described TYT as "the loudly liberal counter to the right leaning presets on my Sirius Satellite Radio." In 2014, The Independent described it as "the most watched online news show in the world." The network is reliant on its multimedia platforms to attract online viewers and its audience are "young, educated, affluent and politically interested" people who consume news from online sources. Over 12 million viewers (2019) are subscribed to its multiple online channels. and won for "Best Political News Site" at the Mashable Open Web Awards. In 2010, it was nominated for a Streamy Award for "Best News or Political Web Series" and the "Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series". In 2011, the program won in the News category at the Third Annual Shorty Awards, and won for "Best News and Political Series" at that year's Webby Awards. In 2012, it won in the Best Video Podcast category at the Podcast Awards In 2013, the program was nominated for two Streamy Awards in the Best News and Culture Series and Audience Choice Award for Series of the Year categories. In 2015, The Young Turks also won a Streamy Award in the News and Culture category. In 2017, TYT won the Shorty Awards Audience Honor for the Best in Overall YouTube Presence. In September 2018, the company launched a membership drive, reporting the number of members to be around 27,000. As of August 2018, TYT had approximately 27,000 paying subscribers online. By August 2016, Cenk Uygur reported that number of paid subscribers had increased to more than 23,000. By October 2016, the total number of views for the TYT Network's YouTube channel had surpassed 3 billion.

The show's name Young Turks has been criticized and called for change due to the original Young Turks political movement in the Ottoman Empire being responsible for committing the Armenian genocide, the Assyrian genocide, and the Greek genocide. Alex Galitsky, who works for the Armenian National Committee of America, stated "If a group decided to call themselves ‘the Young Nazis’, and pitched themselves as a disruptor or anti establishment news outlet, people would be rightly outraged". In 2016, Cenk Uygur posted a statement on TYT's website in which he rescinded his Armenian Genocide denial statements, arguing: "My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about." In response to the criticism he has explained that the name of the show was chosen because it is a popular colloquialism traditionally meaning a young radical who fights the status quo. and later he settled the matter with TYT.

In late February 2020, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) sought to unionize the production and post production staff at TYT. Uygur urged his employees not to, as he stated TYT is a small media organization and the move would endanger its financial viability; however, the network supported its workers holding a secret ballot to unionize. On 9 April 2020, employees voted 6 against and 9 in favor to have their own union and unionize with IATSE, the majority decision being approved by TYT. For two years, the two separate shows were produced each Monday through Thursday, with a one hour break between the production airtimes of the television and web shows. In a press release, representatives for Current described TYT as "a group of progressive, outspoken journalists and commentators discussing politics and pop culture" and founder Cenk Uygur as bringing a, "uniquely progressive and topical commentary about politics and pop culture." which announced plans to reorganize the channel as Al Jazeera America, focusing on world news and investigative content with a more neutral tone; with the move, the channel would discontinue its talk programming slate, including The Young Turks with Cenk Ugyur, which ended its run on Current TV on August 15, 2013, shortly before the network's relaunch. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Uygur commented that with the discontinuance of the television broadcast, he was relieved to move on and focus on his web show and the TYT Network site, stating that he had been "exhausted from doing the two shows at once" and that he was glad to put his energies there, as he believes that the future of media will gravitate towards online content. Uygur also noted that he talked with Al Jazeera after the company bought Current, reaching a mutual agreement not to continue with the television broadcast due to the change in ideological tone that Al Jazeera America would maintain. However, members of The Young Turks on air contributing staff, such as Michael Shure (who served as a political and general assignment contributor), Cara Santa Maria (part of TechKnow) and Ben Mankiewicz (who worked as a movie critic), regularly appeared on Al Jazeera America. The Young Turks also maintain a partnership with Al Jazeera's digital channel AJ+, in an arrangement first announced in March 2015.

The Young Turks returned to television with a weekly, hour long program on Fusion, The Young Turks on Fusion, which premiered on September 12, 2016, for a twelve week limited run. Hosted by Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola, the program – which was broadcast from college campuses around the United States, in a live audience format modelled after ESPN's College GameDay – focused on coverage of the 2016 United States presidential campaign. The show also featured Cenk Uygur, Jimmy Dore, Ben Mankiewicz, Hannah Cranston, Hasan Piker, and Kim Horcher as contributors, as well as Fusion reporters and celebrity guest hosts. Piker is the nephew of Uygur and went on to become a well known Twitch streamer and commentator in his own right.

TYT promotes itself as the "Home of Progressives". By engaging with social movements, the station has called on its audience to become part of its "TYT army". The network uses its platforms for advocacy, such as calling for its audience to participate in the political process and give candidates support. The network has spoken out against corruption in politics and for the need to remove corporate donations out of the political system. The station has been critical of what it regards as a "corporate coup" in the US. TYT was skeptical about claims of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. The station uses traditional and online media platforms regarding political action and mobilization for citizen engagement with institutional politics. For example, TYT townhalls are hosted in local communities involving a moderator asking questions of the expert panel followed by audience questions, with the events streamed on YouTube and on demand web access for its subscription membership. Viewers also have the option to send video questions to the network if they are unable to be present at the townhall. Several hosts for TYT have expressed support for Sanders. The network supports political candidates who are from the same ideological persuasion. TYT's online platforms facilitate the encouragement of civic participation with the political system that in 2018 assisted Justice Democrats in getting 7 congressional victories, 25 candidates during the general election and 78 in the primaries. After Ocasio Cortez became a congresswoman, TYT has continued to cover and defend her from slants by the political and media elite. Other Justice Democrats congressional members like Ro Khanna and Rashida Tlaib have appeared on TYT discussing progressive policies and issues. In June 2019, during a high profile Democratic presidential candidate campaign weekend in Iowa, TYT and a group of supporters launched the Progressive Economic Pledge campaign, challenging presidential candidates to sign. The pledge is to support higher wages, Medicare for All, Green New Deal, college for all and the end of private campaign financing. In mid November 2019, Uygur filed to run for Congress in California's 25th district, a seat recently vacated by the resignation of Katie Hill, an office also being pursued by former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos. He received 6.6% of the vote and did not advance to the runoff, which was won by Republican Mike Garcia. On October 11, 2023, Uygur announced his campaign for President in the Democratic Primary. As of December 2023, he has been kept out of the primary due to the fact that he is not a natural born American citizen.