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Featured Items
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…
by CRC Staff on September 10, 2024

Commentary
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…
by Michael Watson on July 26, 2024

Featured Items
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…
by CRC Staff on May 21, 2024

Special Report
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…
by Scott Walter on May 7, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
We Broke New Ground on Arabella’s “Dark Money” in 2022 [REPOST]
This year (2022) was a big year for exposing the activist Left and the well-heeled, secretive interests bankrolling them. At the center is Arabella Advisors and its $1.6 billion nonprofit…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 2, 2023

Deception & Misdirection
We Broke New Ground on Arabella’s “Dark Money” in 2022
This year (2022) was a big year for exposing the activist Left and the well-heeled, secretive interests bankrolling them. At the center is Arabella Advisors and its $1.6…
by Hayden Ludwig on December 22, 2022

CRC in the News
Best of CRC Media Hits for March–April 2022
The months of March and April were highlighted by not only op-eds and radio/TV interviews but also by syndicated media appearances from Virginia to Alaska. As usual, our topics of…
by Sarah Lee on May 18, 2022

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #215: States Newsroom’s Latest Frontier
Local news: It’s in decline, but people trust it more than national news by all accounts. And this creates an opening for big national organizations to get into the local…
by Michael Watson on April 22, 2022

Organization Trends
Watch Out, Alaska, More Partisan News Is Coming Your Way
If you haven’t heard of States Newsroom, you soon will—the network of left-leaning outlets posing as just-the-facts news sites is expanding in force, with new offices in Juneau, Anchorage, and elsewhere in…
by Hayden Ludwig on April 15, 2022

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