Mike Wendling

Mike Wendling is a BBC journalist, with the job title US National Digital Reporter, and author of the book Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House.^[1] He is a former editor of BBC Trending and was part of the team which covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election.^[2][3] In 2016, Wendling wrote about subjects including American right-wing social media star Tomi Lahren^[4] and a factory that was the first to outsource jobs away from the United States.^[5]

He was also contacted by the American terrorist Joshua Ryne Goldberg,^[6] and interviewed antifa activists and Proud Boys members in Portland, Oregon.^[7]

He is based in Chicago and is originally from western New York State.^[8][9]

References

1. Cooper, Ryan (6 April 2018). "A Political Movement, Defining Itself by What It Hates". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
2. "About Mike Wendling". Pluto Press. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
3. Bartlett, Jamie (23 April 2018). "Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House review – in search of a rightwing rabble". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
4. Wendling, Mike (30 November 2016). "Tomi Lahren: the young Republican who's bigger than Trump on Facebook". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
5. Wendling, Mike (4 November 2016). "US Election 2016: The factory that symbolises Donald Trump's appeal". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
6. Wendling, Mike (21 September 2015). "Neo-Nazi, radical feminist and violent jihadist - all at once". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
7. Wendling, Mike (8 March 2019). "Proud Boys and antifa: When a right-wing activist met a left-wing anti-fascist". BBC. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
8. Wendling, Mike (30 November 2016). "How the fairytale of New York can become a nightmare". BBC. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
9. Fraser, Katie (20 October 2023). "Pluto Press lands Wendling's 'chilling' exposé of the far right". The Bookseller. Retrieved 17 May 2024.