Friday, March 3, 2017
Nonprofit journalism and donor-funded media have seen rapid growth in the past decade, causing both readers and reporters to reconsider how that funding may affect the outcome of a story. Full firewalls between editorial and advertising teams don’t always serve today’s need for transparency, so how do journalists and editors ensure their reporting is not driven by donors’ agendas? This piece describes the framework used by a leading nonprofit news source: NPR.