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PRO Publica, Inc.

Also Known As:ProPublicaPhysical Address:New York, NY 10006 EIN:14-2007220Web URL:propublica.org NTEE Category:A Arts, Culture, and Humanities A33 Printing, Publishing Ruling Year:2008 How This Organization Is Funded:Sandler FoundationJohn S. and James L. Knight FoundationJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Mission Statement

To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.

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Impact Summary from the Nonprofit

Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with "moral force." We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.

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Leadership

Mr. Richard Tofel

Term:

Since Jan 2013

Profile:

Richard Tofel was the founding general manager of ProPublica from 2007-2012, and became president on January 1, 2013. He has responsibility for all of ProPublica's non-journalism operations, including communications, legal, development, finance and budgeting, and human resources.  He was formerly the assistant publisher of The Wall Street Journal and, earlier, an assistant managing editor of the paper, vice president, corporate communications for Dow Jones & Company, and an assistant general counsel of Dow Jones. More recently, he served as vice president, general counsel and secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation, and earlier as president and chief operating officer of the International Freedom Center, a museum and cultural center that was planned for the World Trade Center site. He is the author of "Why American Newspapers Gave Away the Future" (Now and Then Reader, 2012),  "Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861: Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition" (St. Martin's, 2011), "Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism" (St. Martin's, 2009); "Sounding the Trumpet: The Making of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address" (Ivan R. Dee, 2005), "Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behind" (Ivan R. Dee, 2004) and "A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939" (Ivan R. Dee, 2002).

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Program: Investigative Journalism

Budget:$5,234,123Category:Arts, Culture & HumanitiesPopulation Served:General Public/Unspecified

Program Description:

We have established a newsroom of 28 working journalists, all of them dedicated to investigative reporting on stories with significant potential for major impact. Paul Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, is our Editor-in-Chief, Stephen Engelberg, former investigative editor of The New York Times, is Managing Editor. Each story we publish is distributed in a manner designed to maximize its impact. Many of our "deep dive" stories are offered exclusively to a traditional news organization, free of charge, for publication or broadcast. After an appropriate period of exclusivity, each story is also be published on our own site, http://propublica.org. This site also features outstanding investigative reporting produced by others, sometimes with our annotation and follow-up, thus making our site both more of a destination and a tool to promote more good work in this field.

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