Salem Media Group Selling Regnery Publishing to Skyhorse
Publisher founded amid Cold War now focuses on culture war titles
Salem Media Group is selling Regnery Publishing to Skyhorse Publishing. The companies did not announce the terms of the sale. Regnery is a conservative publisher founded in 1947 amid the Cold War that now publishes books on culture war and “wokeness.” 
Salem acquired Regnery in 2014 and added a Salem Books line to the publisher’s imprints.
Under Salem’s ownership, Regnery has published multiple books by conservative Christian culture warriors, including Eric Metaxas, Owen Strachan, Voddie T. Baucham Jr., and Dinesh D’Souza, as well as pastor/evangelist Greg Laurie.
Regnery says its published authors are “a ‘who’s who of conservative thought and action,” including Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Newt Gingrich, Mark Steyn, Mark Levin, Ed Klein, David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, and Donald Trump.
It currently publishes more than 1,500 titles and had sales of $10 million in 2023, according to The New York Times.
Regnery published D’Souza’s book claiming voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, “2,000 Mules: They Thought We’d Never Find Out. They Were Wrong.” The book is a companion volume to D’Souza’s movie, “2000 Mules,” which was financed by Salem.
D’Souza and Regnery are named in a defamation lawsuit filed by a Georgia man who says the book and film falsely accused him of being one of the estimated 2,000 “mules” who harvested 400,000 fake ballots and stole the election from Trump. Metaxas faces his own defamation lawsuit.
Regnery published three of its most famous books some 70 years ago: William F. Buckley Jr.’s God and Man at Yale (1951), Whittaker Chambers’ Witness (1952), and Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind (1953).
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Skyhorse, on the other hand, is a “free speech” publisher that releases both liberal and conservative titles. It published two books containing the House of Representatives’ January 6 report, one featuring a conservative preface and the other with a liberal preface.
In recent years, Skyhorse has made bestsellers out of controversial books that were canceled by other publishers, including a Woody Allen memoir that was canceled by Hachette due to sexual abuse claims, and a book by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley that was canceled by Simon & Schuster after he objected to certifying the Electoral College results of the 2020 presidential election.
Skyhorse’s bestseller, at 1.3 million copies, is The Real Anthony Fauci, a book by presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that contains conspiracy theories and falsehoods about the most famous government doctor of the COVID-19 era.
