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[[ProPublica]] is a left-wing journal founded by [[Herb Sandler]] and [[Marion Sandler]].
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[[ProPublica]] is a partisan journal founded by [[Herb Sandler]] and [[Marion Sandler]].
  
 
==The Sandler Foundation==
 
==The Sandler Foundation==
  
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::The Sandlers created [[The Sandler Foundation]] to back progressive causes in 1991.
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::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.
 
::By the end of 2018, the foundation had given away more than $900 million in grants.
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::"[[Pierre Omidyar|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 [[Pierre Omidyar|Omidyar]]'s foundation. [[Pierre Omidyar|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."
 
::"[[Pierre Omidyar|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 [[Pierre Omidyar|Omidyar]]'s foundation. [[Pierre Omidyar|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."
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'''Supporters'''
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According to [[ProPublica]] dated April 7, 2023:<ref>[https://www.propublica.org/supporters/ Supporters (Accessed April 3, 2023)]</ref>
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::"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:"
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<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
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*[[Abrams Foundation]]
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*[[Altman Foundation]]
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*[[Arnold Ventures]]
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*[[Carnegie Corporation of New York]]
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*The [[Colorado Trust]]
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*The [[Commonwealth Fund]]
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*[[Crankstart]]
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*[[Davis Wright Tremaine]]
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*The [[Richard H. Driehaus Foundation]]
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*[[Dyson Foundation]]
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*[[Emerson Collective]]
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*[[FJC]], [[A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds]]
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*[[Goldhirsh Foundation]]
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*The [[Jerome L. Greene Foundation]]
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*[[Heising-Simons Foundation]]
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*The [[William and Flora Hewlett Foundation]]
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*[[Hollywood Foreign Press Association]]
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*The [[Joyce Foundation]]
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*[[Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]]
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*[[John S. and James L. Knight Foundation]]
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*[[Leon Levy Foundation]]
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*[[Jonathan Logan Family Foundation]]
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*The [[John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]]
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*[[Park Foundation]]
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*[[PCLB Foundation]]
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*[[Charles H. Revson Foundation]]
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*[[The Rogovy Foundation]]
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*[[Sandler Foundation]]
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*[[Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust]]
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*[[Select Equity Foundation]]
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*[[Solidarity Giving]]
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*[[Splunk]]
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*[[Start Small Foundation]]
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*[[TAWANI Foundation]]
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*[[W.K. Kellogg Foundation]]
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*[[Zegar Family Foundation]]</div>
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==Leadership==
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According to [[ProPublica]] dated April 7, 2023:<ref>[https://www.propublica.org/leadership/ Leadership (Accessed April 3, 2023)]</ref>
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<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
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*[[Paul Sagan]], Chair (Replaced the late [[Herb Sandler]]).
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*[[Claire Bernard]]
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*[[Tomiko Brown-Nagin]]
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*[[Mark Colodny]]
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*[[Steve Daetz]]
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*[[Angela Filo]]
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*[[Anu Khosla]]
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*[[Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]]
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*[[Carrie Lozano]]
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*[[Claire Hoffman]]
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*[[Katie McGrath]]
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*[[Bobby Monks]]
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*[[Ronald Olson]]
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*[[James M. Stone]]
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*[[Paul Steiger]], Founder Emeritus</div>
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'''Journalism Advisory Board'''
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<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
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*[[Jill Abramson]], Former Executive Editor, The New York Times
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*[[David Boardman]], Dean, Temple University School of Media and Communications
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*[[Raymond T. Bonner]], writer living in London
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*[[Robert A. Caro]], historian and biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson
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*[[Sheila Coronel]], Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
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*[[L. Gordon Crovitz]], Former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, partner, Journalism Online
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*[[David Gergen]], Professor of public service, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and director of its Center for Public Leadership
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*[[Tom Goldstein]], Director, Media Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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*[[Isaac Lee]], Executive Chairman, Exile Content Studio
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*[[Shawn McIntosh]], Public Editor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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*[[Priscilla Painton]], Executive Editor, Non-fiction, Simon & Schuster
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*[[David Shribman]], Executive Editor Emeritus, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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*[[Allan Sloan]], Senior Editor at Large, Fortune magazine
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*[[Kerry Smith]], Senior Vice President for Editorial Quality, ABC News
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*[[Cynthia A. Tucker]], Columnist, Universal Press Syndicate</div>
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'''ProPublica Leadership Council'''
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*[[Mark Colodny]], Chair, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus LLC
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*[[Tim Andrews]], President and CEO, Advertising Specialty Institute
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*[[Kelly Bavor]], Educator and community volunteer
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*[[Dror Bar-Ziv]], Managing Partner, Blue Sparrow Partners
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*[[Ann Blinkhorn]], Founder, Blinkhorn LLC
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*[[Christopher DeLong]], Principal, Taconic Capital Advisors LLC
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*[[Janice L. Feinberg]], PharmD, JD, President, The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation
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*[[William Gee]], Director, Manaaki Foundation
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*[[Maria Gotsch]], President & CEO, NYC Investment Fund
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*[[Michael Hansen]], CEO, Cengage Learning
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*[[Joanna Stone Herman]], Managing Director, DeSilva+Phillips
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*[[Sarah Kammerer]], Principal, Nimbly LLC
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*[[William Pollak]], CEO, Gordian Group
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*[[Lawrence Rand]], Executive Chairman of Kekst and Company
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*[[Hugh Rogovy]], Founder and President, The Rogovy Foundation
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*[[Michael Rothman]], Co-founder and CEO, Fatherly
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*[[Bruce Sagan]], Chairman of the management committee of the Hyde Park Herald Newspaper, Chicago</div>
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==Officers and Staff==
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According to [[ProPublica]] dated April 7, 2023:<ref>[https://www.propublica.org/staff/ Staff (Accessed April 3, 2023)]</ref>
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'''Officers'''
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*[[Stephen Engelberg]], Editor-in-Chief
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*[[Robin Sparkman]], President
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*[[Tracy Weber]], Managing Editor
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*[[Charles Ornstein]], Managing Editor, Local
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*[[Ragan Rhyne]], Senior Vice President, Development
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*[[Tyson Evans]], Chief Product and Brand Officer
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*[[Alexandra Zayas]], Deputy Managing Editor
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*[[Ginger Thompson]], Chief of Correspondents
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*[[Eric Umansky]], Deputy Managing Editor
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*[[Stephanie Little]], Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
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*[[Jeremy Kutner]], General Counsel
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*[[Diego Sorbara]], Assistant Managing Editor</div>
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'''News Staff'''
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*Deputy Editor, Local: [[Sarah Blustain]]
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*Senior Editors: [[Ziva Branstetter]], [[Patricia Callahan]], [[Jesse Eisinger]], [[Daniel Golden]], [[Michael Grabell]], [[Boyzell Hosey]], [[Rui Kaneya]], [[T. Christian Miller]], [[Michael Mishak]], [[Steve Myers]], [[Kit Rachlis]] and [[Nick Varchaver]]
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*Editor at Large: [[Tim Golden]]
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*Senior Director, Design & Product: [[David Sleight]]
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*Art Director: [[Lisa Larson-Walker]]
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*Editorial Experience Designers: [[Jeff Frankl]] and [[Allen Tan]]
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*Talent Development Director: [[Talia Buford]]
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*Talent Associate: [[Cedeem Gumbs]]
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*Visuals Editors: [[Alex Bandoni]] and [[Andrea Wise]]
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*Director of Audience Strategy: [[Daniel Petty]]
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*Partnerships Editor: [[Kengo Tsutsumi]]
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*Audience Editor, SEO: [[Sophia Kovatch]]
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*Audience Editor, News, Social and Weekends: [[Chris Morran]]
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*Newsletter Editor: [[Ruth Baron]]
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*Reporter, Newsletters: [[Logan Jaffe]]
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*Visual Producer: [[Maya Eliahou]]
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*Engagement Editor and Reporter: [[Ariana Tobin]]
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*Engagement Reporters: [[Byard Duncan]], [[Asia Fields]], [[Adriana Gallardo]], [[Maryam Jameel]] and [[Maya Miller]]
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*Reporters: [[David Armstrong]], [[Ken Armstrong]], [[James Bandler]], [[Anna Maria Barry-Jester]], [[Neil Bedi]], [[Caroline Chen]], [[Pamela Colloff]], [[Renee Dudley]], [[Peter Elkind]], [[Justin Elliott]], [[Robert Faturechi]], [[Robin Fields]], [[Ryan Gabrielson]], [[Cassandra Jaramillo]], [[Corey Johnson]], [[Joshua Kaplan]], [[Paul Kiel]], [[Ava Kofman]], [[Andy Kroll]], [[Sharon Lerner]], [[Abrahm Lustgarten]], [[Alec MacGillis]], [[Kathleen McGrory]], [[J. David McSwane]], [[Kartikay Mehrotra]], [[Brett Murphy]], [[Jake Pearson]], [[Lizzie Presser]], [[Megan Rose]], [[Sebastian Rotella]], [[Topher Sanders]], [[Joaquin Sapien]], [[Craig Silverman]], [[Lisa Song]], [[Kavitha Surana]], [[A.C. Thompson]], [[Marilyn W. Thompson]], [[Heather Vogell]] and [[Annie Waldman]]
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*Research Editor: [[Lynn Dombek]]
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*Senior Research Reporter: [[Doris Burke]]
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*Research Reporters: [[Kirsten Berg]], [[Mariam Elba]], [[Alex Mierjeski]], [[Gabriel Sandoval]] and [[Mollie Simon]]
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*Copy Editors: [[Colleen Barry]] and [[Neil deMause]]
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*Executive Producer, Video: [[Almudena Toral]]
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*Senior Producer: [[Lisa Riordan Seville]]
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*Video Journalists: [[Katie Campbell]], [[Mauricio Rodriuez Pons]] and [[Nadia Sussman]]
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*Video & Film Editor: [[Margaret Cheatham Williams]]
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*Data Editor: [[Ryann Grochowski Jones]]
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*Deputy Data Editor: [[Hannah Fresques]]
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*News Applications Editor: [[Ken Schwencke]]
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*Deputy Editors, News Apps: [[Al Shaw]]
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*News Applications Developers: [[Alec Glassford]], [[Sergio Hernandez]], [[Nat Lash]], [[Ash Ngu]], [[Andrea Suozzo]] and [[Ruth Talbot]]
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*Graphics Director: [[Lena V. Groeger]]
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*Graphics Editor: [[Lucas Waldron]]
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*Interactive Story Designer: [[Anna Donlan]]
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*Lead Product Developer, DevOps and Security: [[Mike Tigas]]
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*Senior Data Reporter: Jeff Ernsthausen
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*Data Reporters: [[Sophie Chou]], [[Haru Coryne]], [[Irena Hwang]], [[Joel Jacobs]], [[Agnel Philip]] and [[Ellis Simani]]
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*Computational Journalist: [[Jeff Kao]]
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*Abrams Reporting Fellow: [[Hannah Dreyfus]], [[Bianca Fortis]] and [[Emily Hopkins]]
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*Ancil Payne Fellow: [[Umar Farooq]]
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*Video & Film Fellow: [[Gerardo del Valle]] and [[Liz Moughon]]
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'''Midwest News Staff'''
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*Midwest Editor: [[George Papajohn]]
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*Deputy Midwest Editor: [[Steve Mills]]
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*Reporters: [[Anna Clark]], [[Jodi S. Cohen]], [[Vernal Coleman]], [[Duaa Eldeib]], [[Jeremy Kohler]], [[Jessica Lussenhop]], [[Megan O'Matz]] and ppMelissa Sanchez]]
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'''South News Staff'''
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*South Editor: [[Mara Shalhoup]]
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*Reporters: [[Max Blau]], [[Nicole Carr]], [[Doug Bock Clark]], [[Jennifer Berry Hawes]], [[Aliyya Swaby]] and [[Seth Freed Wessler]]
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'''Southwest News Staff'''
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*Southwest Editor: [[Michael Squires]]
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*Reporters: [[Anjeanette Damon]], [[Eli Hager]], [[Mary Hudetz]], [[Mark Olalde]] and [[Nicole Santa Cruz]]
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'''Texas Tribune Initiative News Staff'''
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*Texas Editor: [[Zahira Torres]]
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*Reporters: [[Kiah Collier]], [[Vianna Davila]], [[Lomi Kriel]], [[Jeremy Schwartz]] and [[Perla Trevizo]]
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*Engagement Reporter: [[Jessica Priest]]
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*Research Reporter: [[Lexi Churchill]]
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'''Administrative Staff'''
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*Director of Development: [[Heather Troup]]
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*Director of Online Fundraising and Outreach: [[Jill Shepherd]]
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*Director of Development Services: [[Paul Gish]]
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*Director of Leadership Gifts: [[Jane Nicholson]]
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*Assistant Director of Leadership Gifts: [[Heather Schade]]
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*Assistant Director of Individual Giving: [[Tova Genesen]]
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*Senior Foundation Manager: [[Laura Chang]]
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*Development Coordinator: [[Yubei Tang]]
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*Deputy General Counsel: [[Sarah Matthews]]
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*Manager, Information Technology and Operations: [[Nicholas Lanese]]
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*Communications Director: [[Alexis Stephens]]
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*Assistant Director of Communications: [[Alissandra Calderon]]
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*Communications Manager: [[Connor Goodwin]]
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*Events Associate: [[Rocio Ortega]]
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*Human Resources Director: [[Liz Sharp]]
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*Human Resources Associate: [[Myron Avant]]
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*Senior Product Developer: [[Frank Sharpe]]
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*Product Developer: [[Jaya Subrahmanyan]]
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*Associate Product Developer: [[Emenike Godfreey-Igwe]]
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*Finance Director: [[Jeremiah Hess]]
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*Finance Manager: [[Cindy De La Cruz]]
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*Financial Operations Coordinator: [[Joanna Kelly]]
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*Finance Associate: [[Shadman Hussain]]
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*Office Manager: [[Stanley Mah]]
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*Office Assistant, Midwest: [[Liz Barr]]
  
 
==Journalists==
 
==Journalists==
  
 
Journalists who work for [[ProPublica]] have included [[Aaron Leibowitz]].
 
Journalists who work for [[ProPublica]] have included [[Aaron Leibowitz]].
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[[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."
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From [[ProPublica]]:
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::"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.”
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::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.
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::“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, [[Nancy Gertner|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.”
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::[[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.”
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::“When a justice’s lifestyle is being subsidized by the rich and famous, it absolutely corrodes public trust,” said [[Virginia Canter|Canter]], now at the watchdog group [[Citizens for Ethics|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==
 
==References==
  
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[[Category:The Sandler Foundation]]
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[[Category:Sandler Foundation]]
 
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[[category:Journalist]]

Latest revision as of 02:31, 7 April 2023

ProPublica Logo

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.”

[...]

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.

[...]

"“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.)

[...]

"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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