ProPublica

Herb Sandler

ProPublica is a left-wing journal founded by Herb Sandler and Marion Sandler.

Other funding Sources

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

"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 Washington Free Beacon on February 21, 2023:

"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."

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.

Journalists

Journalists who work for ProPublica have included Aaron Leibowitz.