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ProPublica is a partisan journal founded by Herb Sandler and Marion Sandler.

The Sandler Foundation

The Sandlers created the Sandler Foundation to back progressive causes in 1991.
By the end of 2018, the foundation had given away more than $900 million in grants.

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Sandler’s contributions was were partly responsible for several other organizations, including a $30 million gift to launch ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and the first online outlet to win a Pulitzer Prize. Sandler served as chairman of ProPublica until 2016. The Sandler Foundation funded the Center for American Progress, the Center for Responsible Lending, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and the Human Rights Center based at UC Berkeley.

Other funding Sources

On September 29, 2011, Newsbusters reported that ProPublica was a "Soros backed group".[1]

"This course is A project of The Poynter Institute funded by The Knight Foundation. Soros's Open Society Foundations have worked closely with The Knight Foundation. They partnered up to start the Investigative News Network, which received $200,000 from the Knight Foundation and $100,000 from the Open Society Foundations. The Knight Foundations President and CEO, Alberto Ibarguen, is also on the board for AOL and yet another key Soros backed group, the progressive investigative reporting start-up ProPublica.

From the Open Society Foundations website accessed on December 19, 2019:[2]

[T]he Open Society Foundations support efforts to understand the implications of information technology on the way we live. The Foundations also continue to support efforts to protect journalistic freedoms, through groups such as the Committee to Protect Journalists, and to ensure that market forces do not curtail independent investigative reporting, by helping to fund newsrooms such as ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

From the Washington Free Beacon on February 21, 2023:[3]

"Omidyar, the eBay founder and financial backer of the Intercept and ProPublica, donated $509,500 to Accountable Tech in 2021 and 2022, according to a recently updated list of grants disclosed by Omidyar's foundation. Omidyar also gave $2 million to at least six other organizations that targeted Musk, criticizing him in letters and op-eds as "uniquely ill-suited for the job of running a social media platform" and warning that he would turn Twitter into a "free-for-all of hate and harassment."

Supporters

According to ProPublica dated April 7, 2023:[4]

"As a nonprofit, ProPublica relies on donor support. We are grateful to the individuals and organizations that make our work possible. Following is a list of just some of our larger donors:"

Leadership

According to ProPublica dated April 7, 2023:[5]

Journalism Advisory Board

  • Jill Abramson, Former Executive Editor, The New York Times
  • David Boardman, Dean, Temple University School of Media and Communications
  • Raymond T. Bonner, writer living in London
  • Robert A. Caro, historian and biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson
  • Sheila Coronel, Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
  • L. Gordon Crovitz, Former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, partner, Journalism Online
  • David Gergen, Professor of public service, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and director of its Center for Public Leadership
  • Tom Goldstein, Director, Media Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
  • Isaac Lee, Executive Chairman, Exile Content Studio
  • Shawn McIntosh, Public Editor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • Priscilla Painton, Executive Editor, Non-fiction, Simon & Schuster
  • David Shribman, Executive Editor Emeritus, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Allan Sloan, Senior Editor at Large, Fortune magazine
  • Kerry Smith, Senior Vice President for Editorial Quality, ABC News
  • Cynthia A. Tucker, Columnist, Universal Press Syndicate

ProPublica Leadership Council

Officers and Staff

According to ProPublica dated April 7, 2023:[6]

Officers

News Staff

Midwest News Staff

South News Staff

Southwest News Staff

Texas Tribune Initiative News Staff

Administrative Staff

Journalists

Journalists who work for ProPublica have included Aaron Leibowitz.

'Report'

ProPublica's "investigative reporting" has an agenda to target political opponents. A classic example of this is an article targeting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for having a "billionaire" friend that has funded travel for the Justice and his family. Authors Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski report that "Thomas has broken long-standing norms for judges’ conduct, ethics experts and four current or retired federal judges said."

From ProPublica:

"In a statement, [Harlan] Crow acknowledged that he’d extended “hospitality” to the Thomases “over the years,” but said that Thomas never asked for any of it and it was “no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends.”
Through his largesse, Crow has gained a unique form of access, spending days in private with one of the most powerful people in the country. By accepting the trips, Thomas has broken long-standing norms for judges’ conduct, ethics experts and four current or retired federal judges said.
“It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” said Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton. When she was on the bench, Gertner said, she was so cautious about appearances that she wouldn’t mention her title when making dinner reservations: “It was a question of not wanting to use the office for anything other than what it was intended.”
Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer who served in administrations of both parties, said Thomas “seems to have completely disregarded his higher ethical obligations.”
“When a justice’s lifestyle is being subsidized by the rich and famous, it absolutely corrodes public trust,” said Canter, now at the watchdog group CREW. “Quite frankly, it makes my heart sink.”

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During just one trip in July 2017, [Clarence] Thomas’ fellow guests included executives at Verizon and PricewaterhouseCoopers, major Republican donors and one of the leaders of the American Enterprise Institute, a pro-business conservative think tank, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.

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"“If Justice Thomas received free travel on private planes and yachts, failure to report the gifts is a violation of the disclosure law,” said Kedric Payne, senior director for ethics at the nonprofit government watchdog Campaign Legal Center. (Thomas himself once reported receiving a private jet trip from Crow, on his disclosure for 1997.)

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"ProPublica confirmed that Thomas was on the jet through Supreme Court security records obtained by the nonprofit Fix the Court, private jet data, a New Haven plane spotter and another person at the airport.

References

  1. ↑ Soros-Funded Group Behind Course for Journalists That Downplays 'Jihad', Accessed December 26 2016
  2. ↑ Information and Media (accessed on December 19, 2019)
  3. ↑ Mystery Solved: Left-Wing Billionaire Pierre Omidyar Bankrolls Shadowy Anti-Musk Group (accessed February 23, 2023)
  4. ↑ Supporters (Accessed April 3, 2023)
  5. ↑ Leadership (Accessed April 3, 2023)
  6. ↑ Staff (Accessed April 3, 2023)
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