How specific are funders about the content they want to finance? General operating support grants, which allows a nonprofit media organization the most freedom regarding how it spends funds, was the most common type of grant cited by the nonprofit media organizations surveyed. Most foundations (57 percent) also said they had given grants to help […]

In all, more foundations surveyed said they are funding nonprofit journalism — both to nonprofit media and in collaborations with commercial media — than they were five years ago. That finding is consistent with what the Foundation Center, Knight Foundation and Media Impact Funders have found elsewhere. In all, 43 percent of funders said the […]

In the end, do funders think their underwriting of media is accomplishing what they want? More than half of foundations said they consider their media grantmaking a success; generally accomplishing their objectives, and a few exceeding them. Very few report falling short of their objectives. However, about 35 percent did not answer the question, skipping […]

The New York Times is continuing to struggle with a story written by freelancer Sridhar Pappu about the Twitter backlash to comments made by Gay Talese about female journalists, and executive editor Dean Baquet met with the Style department about the story on Tuesday. Baquet said in a note last week that the story failed […]

A banner ad on The New York Times’ website is directing readers to New York Times Magazine’s cover story on the revival of “Shuffle Along.” The ad directs users not only to the 10,000 word story, but to buy tickets for the show itself. Poynter’s Kelly McBride says the ad raises ethical questions about whether […]

Immediately after the Brussels attacks earlier this week, journalists were being criticized for asking people on social media if they could use their photos and videos of the attack. Martin Belam writes that the attacks this week highlight an ethical dilemma for journalists: While there’s a public interest in using those images, should journalists contact […]

The New York Times is changing its policy on anonymous sources to require two out of three top editors to review and sign off on articles that primarily depend on anonymous sources. But if media in the U.K. were to adopt a similar policy, The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade questions how many political stories could be […]

Cokie Roberts isn’t the only journalist to make statements against Trump recently, Callum Borchers writes: Glenn Beck, Arianna Huffington, Bill Kristol and others have all publicly come out against Trump. These journalists don’t really think that their statements will change public opinion, Borchers writes, but instead, they want clear consciences: “They want to be able, […]

Longtime NPR analyst and commentator Cokie Roberts co-wrote a syndicated newspaper column that called for “the rational wing” of the Republican Party to stop Donald Trump’s presidential nomination, leading NPR to clarify what Roberts’ role is as a commentator. While NPR forbids its journalists from taking a stance on public affairs, Roberts is not a […]

Many local newspapers’ websites included photo galleries of mugshots, and most of those websites are making money off those mugshots, Fusion reports. Fusion analyzed 74 U.S. newspapers, most of which were owned by Tribune Publishing or McClatchy, and found that 40 percent of those newspapers publish mugshot galleries. But the business model of making money […]