ProPublica

Organization Trends
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…
by Michael Watson on October 20, 2021

Organization Trends
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.
by Michael Watson on October 20, 2021

Organization Trends
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…
by Michael Watson on October 20, 2021

Organization Trends
Nonprofits and Journalism Update: Responses from the Center and Right
The Trump years brought sea changes to the media, as a motivated woke-liberal audience flowed in alongside millions of dollars in nonprofit and for-profit money. Alongside that audience influx came…
by Michael Watson on October 20, 2021

CRC in the News, Media Hits
Best of CRC Media Hits for January 2021
January’s media hits are setting the tone for some of the topics we’ll be focused on in the coming year, including Big Tech, conservative versus liberal dark money giving, how…
by Sarah Lee on February 2, 2021

Philanthropy
Are You Ready for Giving Tuesday?
Americans are the most generous people in the world. Nothing illustrates that better than Giving Tuesday, a philanthropy tradition started in 2012 as a way to fund nonprofits focusing on…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 1, 2020

Organization Trends
The IRS Attacks the Tea Party
(PDF here) Summary: Left-wing activists like the Soros-backed ProPublica group helped Lois Lerner’s IRS persecute and harass conservative nonprofits that were seeking tax-exempt status. The great Daniel Webster…
by Joely Friedman on March 11, 2016