# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-ortega
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:32:25.399Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-ortega"
name: "Tony Ortega"
slug: "tony-ortega"
description: "Anthony \"Tony\" Ortega is an American journalist and editor who is best known for his coverage of the Church of Scientology and his blog The Underground Bunker. He was executive editor of Raw Story from 2013 until 2015. Previously, he had been a journalist at the New Times LA, the editor-in-chief of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times from 2005 to 2007, and the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice from 2007 to 2012. In 2015, he was executive editor of the YouTube channel TheLipTV. He is author of the non-fiction book The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, about journalist Paulette Cooper and the Church of Scientology's attempts to silence her after her own book was published."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tony_Ortega_at_Kensico_Dam.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1963-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.06
  momentum:             0.2678571428571428
  historical:           4.417028
  currentAttention:     1.217532467532467
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 22200
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TonyOrtega94"
    handle:    "TonyOrtega94"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/TonyOrtegaWriter"
    handle:    "TonyOrtegaWriter"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://tonyortega.org/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOTK4ae6wrPbRbYynM95mjA"
    handle:    "@tonyortegawriter"
    followers: 22200
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    title: "توني أورتيغا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تونى اورتيجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7_(%DA%98%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA)"
    title: "تونی اورتقا (ژورنالیست)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Ortega"
    title: "Tony Ortega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tony_Ortega"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump