Mary Margaret Olohan
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Mary Margaret Olohan is an American journalist and a senior reporter for The Daily Signal, a conservative media outlet owned and published by far-right think tank The Heritage Foundation. She is also a visiting fellow at the Charles Koch-funded Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), a conservative non-profit that has platformed anti-transgender figures like Vernadette Broyles.
Americans aren't happy with this type of language [in support of transgender people], they're canceling their subscriptions and their trips [to Disney], and they're becoming increasingly frustrated with this kind of terminology ... We're seeing this translated across the country as parents kind of speak up [in this] parental rebellion against woke ideology.
Olohan, for Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, 13 April 2022
Education and Credentials
Olohan graduated from The Catholic University of America with her Bachelor of Arts in English in 2018. She has worked as a marketing intern for radio broadcaster Salem Media Group; an editorial intern at independent women’s fashion and lifestyle magazine Verily; and a marketing and publicity intern, later associate, for conservative publisher Regnery Publishing, who have published books for notable conservatives like Ann Coulter and Ted Cruz.
In July of 2023, Olohan joined conservative non-profit organization Independent Women’s Forum as a visiting fellow.
Journalistic Work
In January of 2019, Olohan began contributing to The Daily Caller, a right-wing news outlet founded by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and conservative political advisor Neil Patel known for running false stories and employing white supremacists. In March of that year, Olohan was made The Daily Caller’s Social Issues Reporter. There she wrote anti-transgender articles and anti-abortion articles.
In October of 2021, Olohan left The Daily Caller to write for The Daily Signal, a conservative news website founded by right-wing blogger Robert Bluey and owned by anti-LGBTQ+ group The Heritage Foundation. She left The Daily Signal in March of 2022 to write for The Daily Wire, a conservative news outlet founded by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro, then returned to The Daily Signal as a senior reporter in September. There she continued to write articles critical of abortion and transgender healthcare.