Matt Drudge

Drudge was raised in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he was a "loner" and a news junkie, a kid who grew up with talk radio as company. His first jobs included the night shift at a 7-11 and selling TIME Life books over the phone. He moved to Los Angeles in 1989 and started The Drudge Report in 1995. He was managing the CBS studio gift shop and thought it would be an amusing hobby to use the 'Net to relay the gossip he overheard. Drudge's declared aim is to give "the American people" the information he believes to be correct or important, and to revolutionize the media industry with a breath of fresh, young air.