InfluenceWatch Podcast #356: L’Affaire Murphy and Leftist Local News
We try not to wade into the more salacious soap opera stories that quite frankly infest the D.C. political world. But when a story intersects with work we do, well,…
Courier Newsroom
Instruments of Woke: Local News or Political Propaganda? Part II
Most Americans trust local news more than national news outlets. Left-leaning billionaires are attempting to exploit that trust by secretly funding local news outlets in hopes of propagandizing Americans. You…
Liberal Philanthropists Have Their Sights on Local News
Now, more than ever, the news has a credibility problem. Newspapers and digital outlets present themselves as fact-based local media but in reality are partisan or ideological propaganda mills affiliated…
Capital Research, April 2024
In the April 2024 issue of Capital Research—a special issue on nonprofit journalism—the landscape of journalism is changing. The Left is building a nonprofit journalism empire. Fact checkers provide cover…
The Rise of Left-Wing Nonprofit Journalism
The decline of traditional metropolitan “objective” media outlets has affected the news landscape dramatically. Those outlets were more liberal and less objective than they pretended, and their business model, which…
Onetime Disinformation Donors Back Left-Wing Propaganda Targeting Disinformation [REPOST]
On Tuesday, political media outlet Axios reported on the latest project of controversial Democratic operative Tara McGowan. McGowan will head Good Information, a nominally for-profit “public benefit corporation” venture “to…
Onetime Disinformation Donors Back Left-Wing Propaganda Targeting Disinformation
On Tuesday, political media outlet Axios reported on the latest project of controversial Democratic operative Tara McGowan. McGowan will head Good Information, a nominally for-profit “public benefit corporation” venture “to…
Nonprofits and Journalism Update: Media State of Play
In early 2019, we surveyed the media landscape with a focus on the role of liberal-backed but nominally nonpartisan not-for-profit news outlets like ProPublica and Center for Public Integrity, which…
Nonprofits and Journalism Update: Liberal Cancellation Movements
As the for-profit right-of-center media are embroiled in turmoil, left-wing activists in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are seeking to de-platform the right-of-center networks and to silence right-of-center reporting.
Nonprofits and Journalism Update: The 1619 Project
Perhaps the most prominent ostensibly journalistic endeavor since our last review of the media landscape was the “1619 Project,” an effort by controversial New York Times Magazine writer and 2016…