The Associated Press, the country's top wire service, is now bankrolled in part by millions of dollars from left-wing foundations, including one founded by "1619 Project" author Nikole Hannah-Jones.
The Ida B. Wells Society, founded by "1619 Project" lightning rod Hannah-Jones, has teamed up with filmmaker Steven Spielberg's Hearthland Foundation, for example, to foster "More inclusive storytelling" at the Associated Press.
The funding, much of it from these sorts of overly political actors, will make it more challenging for the Associated Press to swat away accusations of political bias.
The organization's "Democracy journalism initiative," a division whose reporters cover "The intersection of race and voting," is bankrolled by nonprofits such as the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
Though the Associated Press is funded largely by subscriptions from the thousands of news organizations that pay to license its content, its donors shell out millions to subsidize coverage of some of the country's most divisive political issues.
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, for example, provided $500,000 in 2022 to the Associated Press's "Democracy journalism initiative." The foundation recently blasted the Supreme Court decision to overturn affirmative action, saying the decision "Impedes colleges and universities from selecting their own student bodies and fully addressing systemic racial inequalities that persist." The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation spent $2.5 million on the AP's climate and education reporting verticals and sent $400,000 to its democracy journalism initiative.
In recent years, the foundation launched an app that simulates the effects of a nuclear detonation.
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