ProPublica

For General Operating Support

  • Amount
    $600,000
  • Program
  • Date Awarded
    5/19/2021
  • Term
    24.0 Months
  • Type of Support
    General Support/Organization
Overview
ProPublica produces high-quality investigative journalism in the public interest, with an independent newsroom and leadership by some of the nations most distinguished editors. It investigates business and government in areas ranging from health care to the financial system, and from the environment to practices that undermine fair elections. ProPublicas stories have won numerous awards including two Pulitzer Prizes, a Peabody Award in the radio/podcast category, and the George Polk Award for medical reporting. A renewed two-year general operating support grant from the Hewlett Foundation will support ProPublicas continued work in an era where investigative journalism remains under significant financial threat.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
ProPublica.org 
Address
155 Avenue of the Americas, 13th Floor, New York, NY, 10013, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support  
ProPublica produces high-quality investigative journalism in the public interest, with an independent newsroom and leadership by some of the nations most distinguished editors. It investigates business and government in areas ranging from health care to the financial system, and from the environment to practices that undermine fair elections. ProPublicas stories have won numerous awards including two Pulitzer Prizes, a Peabody Award in the radio/podcast category, and the George Polk Award for medical reporting. A renewed two-year general operating support grant from the Hewlett Foundation will support ProPublicas continued work in an era where investigative journalism remains under significant financial threat.
for general operating support  
Since 2008, ProPublica has produced high quality, investigative journalism in the public interest. It is an independent newsroom with 34 working journalists, led by some of the nations most distinguished editors, and its goal is to stimulate positive change and reform. It investigates business and government, the two biggest centers of power, in areas ranging from product safety to securities fraud, from flaws in our criminal justice system to practices that undermine fair elections. ProPublica also focuses on such institutions as unions, universities, hospitals, foundations, and on the media when they constitute the strong exploiting or oppressing the weak, or when they are abusing the public trust. In just three years, ProPublica has published hundreds of major stories with more than eighty partners, ranging from the NY Times, Washington Post, and USA Today, to PBS NewsHour, NPR, and Frontline, to the Huffington Post, Daily Beast, and Yahoo!. It has more than 80,000 Twitter followers, 23,000 Facebook fans, and 53,000 subscribers to its daily email. ProPublica's stories have also won numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Magazine Award, and three Overseas Press Club Awards.

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