Red Alert Politics' editorial staff.
PENN QUARTER -- If you were a member of the District's budding population of young conservatives, Monday night's hot ticket came courtesy of
Red Alert Politics, with the online publication hosting a private party inside
LivingSocial's trendy Penn Quarter event space.
The celebration served double-duty as both a congratulatory affair to the winners of
Red Alert's annual '
30 Under 30' list, as well as toasting the relaunch of
The Washington Examiner's much looked forward to '
Yeas & Nays' column.
The former is a way for the right-leaning publication -- led by editor
Francesca Chambers -- to recognize some of the year's 'finest young conservative, libertarian, and Republican leaders', with more than 400 nominations submitted for 2013. Prior winners, as well as
Red Alert staff members and contributors to its parent company's sister publications, were excluded from consideration.
Speaking of said companion companies,
Red Alert Politics is owned by the same media organization that publishes
The Weekly Standard and
The Washington Examiner. The
Examiner, of course, made headlines recently for shuttering its daily print operation in favor of an online-only model (coupled with a weekly print glossy).
A supposed casualty of said reboot was the publication's popular 'Yeas & Nays' column, which was helmed by veteran D.C. journalist
Nikki Schwab. However, with
Red Alert's newfound prominence, Schwab made the jump to the 'red all over' site, debuting her
first story last night.