industry online media founded 2004 founder charles foster johnson roger l. simon headquarters united states key people aubrey chernick roger l. simon products pj media pjtv website pj media pj media originally known as pajamas media is an american online media company and operator of an eponymous neoconservative news opinion and commentary collaborative blog that was founded in 2004 . its majority owner is technology entrepreneur and angel investor aubrey chernick . 1 pj media also operated the online television and video network pjtv which ceased to exist on may 11 2016 . 1 history edit pj media was founded as pajamas media in 2004 by charles johnson the blogger behind little green footballs and screen producer roger l. simon after johnson s contribution to the killian documents controversy investigation in 2004 in which he helped lead to the retraction of a 60 minutes story critical of president george w. bush s service in the air national guard and dan rather s resignation from cbs news . johnson and simon set out to challenge the mainstream media with a network of citizen journalists . 2 3 the network was primarily made up of conservatives and libertarians . 4 the network s original name was derived from a dismissive comment made by former cbs news executive jonathan klein during the 2004 killian documents affair you couldn t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances at 60 minutes and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas . 5 6 pajamas media received venture capital funding in november 2005 . pajamas used this funding for its operations and marketing while expanding its news and opinion coverage . investors in this round of financing included aubrey chernick an angel investor and technology entrepreneur james koshland a venture capitalist and a partnership formed by dla piper rudnick gray cary . 7 it rebranded as open source media shortly thereafter and had a launch party that included a keynote address by former new york times journalist judith miller presentations from john podhoretz of commentary magazine andrew breitbart elizabeth hayt of the new york times david corn of the nation and others . less than a week after its official launch open source media changed its name back to pajamas media after discovering that public radio international distributed a radio show called open source produced by open source media inc. 8 johnson and pajamas split in 2007 by mutual agreement ; johnson s stake was bought out . 9 10 in october 2011 pajamas media changed its name to pj media . 11 pjtv edit in the summer of 2008 pajamas media launched pjtv an subscription based internet television service . 12 the internet television service debuted at the 2008 republican national convention in st. paul minnesota . pjtv featured shows hosted by commentators such as bill whittle tammy bruce and glenn reynolds . 1 on may 11 2016 pjtv shut down operations after its majority investor aubrey chernick pulled out funds . 13 references edit a b c grove lloyd 2016 04 15 . the death of pjtv how aubrey chernick s right wing media dream died . the daily beast . retrieved 2016 05 19 . andrew leigh 2005 . pajama clad revolutionaries . national review november 15 2005 . peter hannaford may 12 2005 . pajama game . the american spectator . access date requires url help an open letter to all bloggers by roger l. simon april 28 2005 how the blogosphere took on cbs docs american dialect society 2004 words of the year . pajamas media closes 3.5 million venture round press release . pajamas media . november 14 2005 . access date requires url help anick jesdanun november 22 2005 . media web site reverts back to old name . associated press . access date requires url help conservative in liberal hands . hillel aron dec 4 2009 . charles johnson and his little green footballs holding down the center . neon tommy online publication of the usc annenberg school of journalism . archived from the original on dec 13 2009 . pajamas media becomes pj media press release . pj media . october 25 2011 . retrieved april 10 2012 . new media 2.0 venture to cover rnc ; pajamas tv internet service created in response to eroding public confidence in mainstream media press release . pajamas media . september 3 2008 . access date requires url help http www.thedailybeast.com articles 2016 04 15 the death of pjtv how aubrey chernick s right wing media dream died.html retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pj media & oldid 744573165 categories american television networkscommunity created content televisioninternet properties established in 2004internet television channelsvideo on demand serviceshidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no urluse mdy dates from august 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 october 2016 at 03 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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