The Role of Philanthropy

A recent report from the Nieman Lab about the growing support from charitable organzations for community journalism:

In 2016, The Guardian formed an independent, U.S.-based charitable organization specifically to find financial support for its journalism. It’s part of a growing trend of U.S. newspapers seeking philanthropic support; the same year, The New York Times launched its own philanthropic arm and, in 2019, hired Sharon Chan, who’d formerly raised money to support education journalism at the Seattle Times, as its first VP of Philanthropy. A recently announced Times journalism initiative, Headway, is supported by philanthropic dollars.