The former Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones executive, onetime top Rockefeller Foundation official, former ProPublica president, and current Substack writer and consultant talks to Michael E. Hartmann more about the relationship between funding and content in nonprofit and for-profit journalism, groupthink and diversity in the news business overall, and some specific challenges facing both foundation funders and management teams of nonprofit news organizations.| the Giving Review
I consume a lot of public media and it drives me crazy. I don’t think it should be taxpayer-supported.| Isthmus | Madison, Wisconsin
A group of Republican senators urged the CEO of NPR to course-correct the publication following revelations of its lack of ideological diversity in the newsroom.| Fox News
Needed: a new deal with Congress, and with member stations| dicktofel.substack.com
Were efforts to conceal Biden’s age-related decline a “conspiracy”?| www.natesilver.net
Senate and House Republicans sounded off about NPR after a senior editor at the outlet made allegations of bias within the newsroom.| Fox News
Leaders on the House Energy & Commerce Committee are reaching out to NPR CEO Katherine Maher for a hearing before the committee on May 8.| Fox News