The Young Turks
American online news show
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| January 12 2024 | NewsNation hosted a second presidential primary forum with Phillips, Williamson, and Uygur. Biden was again invited but did not attend. |
| 2023 | The Humanist Report broke away from the TYT Network. |
| December 6 2023 | TYT hosted a presidential primary forum featuring Democratic candidates Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson, and Cenk Uygur. Biden was invited but declined to attend. |
| October 11 2023 | Cenk Uygur announced his campaign for President in the Democratic Primary, though he was ultimately disqualified due to not being a natural-born American citizen. |
| September 2021 | Power Hour with Nina Turner launched, co-hosted by Nina Turner and Cenk Uygur. |
| April 9 2020 | Nine out of fifteen staff members voted in favor of unionizing with IATSE. The majority decision was approved by The Young Turks, establishing a union for their production and post-production staff. |
| April 9 2020 | Nine out of fifteen TYT staff members voted in favor of unionizing with IATSE, successfully establishing a union for the production and post-production workers, with the majority decision being officially approved by the network. |
| February 2020 | The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) began efforts to unionize the production and post-production staff at The Young Turks (TYT), with founder Cenk Uygur initially urging employees against unionization due to concerns about the organization's financial viability. |
| 2019 | The Young Turks had grown to 32,000 subscribed members, received 200 million monthly views, and had over 12 million subscribers across its online channels. |
| November 2019 | Cenk Uygur filed to run for Congress in California's 25th district, receiving 6.6% of the vote and not advancing to the runoff. |
| 2018 | TYT endorsed all Justice Democrats candidates during the US mid-term elections, helping secure 7 congressional victories, 25 general election candidates, and 78 primary candidates. |
| 2018 | TYT provided first media platform for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to discuss her policies and campaign. |
| November 2018 | Emma Vigeland primarily hosted Rebel HQ until she joined The Majority Report with Sam Seder in November 2020 |
| September 2018 | The company launched a membership drive, reporting approximately 27,000 paying online subscribers. |
| August 2018 | Pop Trigger and Nerd Alert shows ended production. |
| May 17 2018 | The Young Turks launched a 24-hour linear channel on YouTube TV, featuring their current shows and four new shows: The Damage Report, '#NoFilter', 'The Happy Half Hour', and 'Old-School Sports'. |
| January 21 2018 | TYT confirmed the launch of 'The News with Dan Rather', a weekly half-hour newscast hosted by the former CBS Evening News anchor. |
| 2017 | Created Rebel HQ, a half-hour interview-based program to feature progressive political candidates. |
| 2017 | TYT won the Shorty Awards Audience Honor for the Best in Overall YouTube Presence. |
| 2017 | TYT sought to expand its media network and hired more staff through venture capital fundraising efforts, raising $20 million. |
| 2017 | Sought to expand its media network and hire more staff through venture capital fundraising, raising $20 million. |
| November 2017 | The Young Turks (TYT) fired field reporter Jordan Chariton following sexual assault allegations reported by The Huffington Post. Chariton denied the accusations and later settled the matter with the organization. |
| August 2017 | The Young Turks raised $20 million in venture capital from 3L Capital, WndrCo, Greycroft, and e.ventures to expand management, creative talent, and marketing initiatives. |
| 2016 | Cenk Uygur posted a statement on The Young Turks' website rescinding his previous Armenian genocide denial statements and acknowledging his lack of historical scholarship on the topic. |
| December 2016 | TYT Network launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $2 million for hiring investigative teams. |
| October 2016 | The TYT Network's YouTube channel surpassed 3 billion total views. |
| September 12 2016 | The Young Turks returned to television with a weekly program on Fusion, hosted by Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola, focusing on coverage of the 2016 United States presidential campaign. |
| August 2016 | Aggressive Progressives weekly political talk and satire show debuted, hosted by Steve Oh and initially co-hosted by Jimmy Dore |
| August 2016 | Cenk Uygur reported the number of paid subscribers had increased to more than 23,000. |
| 2015 | Won a Streamy Award in the News and Culture category. |
| 2015 | The Young Turks won a Streamy Award in the News and Culture category. |
| June 2015 | Construction of The Young Turks' new studio facilities in Los Angeles was completed. |
| 2014 | Jason Rubin and Francis Maxwell replaced Rick Strom as co-hosts of TYT Sports. |
| 2014 | Styleogue, a fashion and lifestyle program, debuted. |
| 2014 | ThinkTank science and social commentary program relaunched in its current format, originally started as TYT University in 2011 |
| 2014 | The Independent described The Young Turks as 'the most-watched online news show in the world'. |
| 2014 | A documentary about The Young Turks called 'Mad as Hell' was released. |
| 2014 | Received a $4 million investment from Roemer, Robinson, Melville & Co., LLC, led by former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer. |
| November 2014 | The Bill Press Show became affiliated with the TYT Network. |
| April 2014 | The Young Turks began offering condensed content on Hulu, including a 30-minute version of their daily show and PopTrigger. |
| 2013 | Rick Strom took over as co-host of TYT Sports. |
| 2013 | The program was nominated for two Streamy Awards in the Best News and Culture Series and Audience Choice Award for Series of the Year categories. |
| 2013 | The Young Turks' production staff relocated temporarily to YouTube Space LA in Los Angeles. |
| October 2013 | The Young Turks launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise $250,000 for a new studio, ultimately raising $400,000. |
| August 15 2013 | The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur ended its run on Current TV, discontinuing its television broadcast. |
| April 20 2013 | The Young Turks announced their YouTube channel had reached over 1 billion video views. |
| January 2 2013 | Current TV was sold to Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera Media Network, which planned to reorganize the channel as Al Jazeera America. |
| 2012 | The program won the Best Video Podcast category at the Podcast Awards. |
| 2011 | Debuted The Point, a current affairs panel show hosted by Ana Kasparian, which went on hiatus in January 2016. |
| 2011 | TYT University was established, which later relaunched as ThinkTank in 2014, a science and social commentary program. |
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