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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

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

Deception & Misdirection
Democratic Donors’ Disinformation Ops—UPDATED
The Left really misses the good old days, when all major news outlets in print, radio, and TV could be counted on to spout the approved narratives. Nowadays, many Americans…
by Scott Walter on June 22, 2021