L. Brent Bozell III

Founder and President of the MRC

Lecturer, syndicated columnist, television commentator, debater, marketer, businessman, author, publisher and activist, L. Brent Bozell III is one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today.

Mr. Bozell is the Founder and President of the Media Research Center, the largest media watchdog organization in America. Since launching in 1987, the MRC has the largest video archive in the world and houses the indispensable MRC NewsBusters site, MRC Business, MRC Culture, MRCTV, MRC Latino; the daily news wire, CNSNews.com, and most recently, MRC Free Speech America. Because of a marketing effort that never rests, MRC content garners an average of over 515 million impressions per week.

In 2010, Mr. Bozell founded ForAmerica, an organization committed to restoring America to its founding principles. Three days after President Trump’s victory, ForAmerica was declared “One of the greatest unexpected influences on the [2016] election” by The New York Times. In 1998, Mr. Bozell founded and was the first president of the Parents Television Council, the largest group in America dedicated to restoring decency to Hollywood. He founded the Conservative Victory Committee PAC in 1987. Before founding the MRC, Mr. Bozell was the finance director and later the president of the National Conservative Political Action Committee and the National Conservative Foundation.

Mr. Bozell's op-eds and bi-weekly columns with Tim Graham appear in outlets all over the country, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Fox News and USA Today. He is the author of six books, including, “And That’s the Way It Is(n’t)” with Brent Baker), “Weapons of Mass Distortion,  Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election” (with Tim Graham), “Whitewash” (with Tim  Graham), “Unmasked: Big Media’s War Against Trump” (with Tim Graham), and “Stops Along the Way: A Catholic Soul, a Conservative Heart, an Irish Temper, and a Love of Life.”

He has been a guest on numerous television programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, Nightline, The Today Show and Good Morning America. He appeared weekly on the "Media Mash" segment of Hannity on Fox News, as well as regular appearances on Mornings with Maria, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Varney & Co.

Named the 1998 Pew Memorial Lecturer by Grove City College, Mr. Bozell is a frequent speaker on school campuses and for civic and political organizations around the country.

Mr. Bozell received his B.A. in History from the University of Dallas, where he was named the 1998 Alumnus of the Year. In 2015, he received an honorary PhD from UD. He is married, with five children and seventeen grandchildren.