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A non-profit newsroom founded in 2007 that publishes investigative journalism and gives it away, partnering with other outlets rather than competing with them. It has won multiple Pulitzers.
Its model has been widely imitated because it funds the kind of slow, expensive reporting that advertising no longer supports. Critics argue that foundation funding is not neutral money, that the subjects chosen reflect the priorities of the foundations funding them, and that its investigations into the judiciary have had an evident political direction.