Nonprofit newsrooms fundraise off Trump win

Nonprofit newsrooms around the country are using the results of the presidential election as a fundraising pitch, promising to hold a new administration accountable if readers donate. “All of us are still absorbing the full implications of this week’s election,” wrote Bill Keller, the editor in chief of The Marshall Project.” “We’re wondering what will happen on a wide range of issues we care deeply about … Good public policy must be based on facts. Institutions that gather those facts in a careful and nonpartisan manner need public support more than ever.” The Center for Public Integrity and ProPublica sent similar fundraising pitches recently. CPI told supporters that “now more than ever, independent, fact-based investigative journalism is needed most.” ProPublica asked readers, in the wake of the election, to donate so the newsroom can “hold those in power to account, and to call out abuses.”