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The Media Matters Action Network (MMAN) is a research organization which targets right-of-center publications, institutions, and public figures to discredit them. The organization also provides resources to left-wing activists for them to conduct their own targeting campaigns. MMAN is a partner project of Media Matters for America (MMFA), a
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Media Matters for America (MMfA) was established in 2004 by conservative-turned-liberal activist David Brock. MMfA was created as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. MMfA positions itself as a fact-checker, focusing on conservative media bias and inaccuracies. In practice, the organization frequently criticizes opinions of conservative commentators. In November 2023, MMfA was
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Maryland Matters is the Maryland branch of States Newsroom, a nonprofit media coalition that has called itself a progressive political journalism start up. 1
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Unbendable Media is a left-of-center public relations firm that was founded in 2016 by former staff of the left-of-center public relations firm FitzGibbon Media after it closed following allegations of personal misconduct against its president, Trevor FitzGibbon.
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Lawfare Media, known simply as Lawfare, is a legal policy website founded by law professors Robert Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes that covers national security issues and the use of the legal system regarding political and international relations. The site features commentary from a variety of professors and legal scholars
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CalMatters is a left-of-center media organization that publishes articles covering current events and politics in the state of California. 1 CalMatters publishes legislative trackers and voter guides for California voters, publishing the status of California state legislation
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The Media Research Center (MRC) is a right-of-center media watchdog. MRC provides commentary on news reports published by mainstream media outlets and illustrates what it characterizes as implicit and explicit left-of-center bias in the metropolitan print media, cable news, and over-the-air television news. MRC was founded by L. Brent Bozell
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Population Matters (PM) is a London-based think tank seeking to reduce the number of live births globally in an effort to reduce human impact on the environment. Population Matters (formerly Optimum Population Trust) strongly leans upon left-progressive social ideology, positing that overpopulation is a result of sexism and that the
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GateHouse Media is the largest publisher of daily newspapers in the United States, as measured by number of distinct publications. 1 It is owned by New Media Investment Group, and as of 2019 was publishing 146 daily
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True Blue Media, LLC is an investment firm founded in 2015 and owned by Clinton family-aligned political operative David Brock. The firm acts as a holding company for the Brock-aligned Shareblue Media, and owns an 80 percent stake in it. Shareblue Media produces left-wing viral media content. It
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The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a nonprofit journalism institution located in St. Petersburg, Florida. It owns and controls Times Publishing Company, which publishes the Tampa Bay Times and previously published Congressional Quarterly. Poynter operates the controversial left-of-center PolitiFact fact-checking organization, which was launched by its subsidiary St. Petersburg
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The 74 Media is a nonpartisan education news group that publishes news stories and opinion content that discuss racism and corruption occurring in public school systems in the United States. It is best known for its flagship site, the 74, but it also operates LA School Report and its Spanish-language
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First Look Media is a research and media organization founded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar in partnership with controversial left-of-center activist journalist Glenn Greenwald, perhaps best known for collaborating in the mass disclosure of classified national security documents by Edward Snowden, a former U.S. government contractor residing in Russia
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Policy Matters Ohio is a left-of-center advocacy group and policy research organization founded in January 2000 focusing on the state of Ohio. The group advocates for left-of-center state-level policies in Ohio through research, media work, and policy papers.
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ReThink Media, founded in 2008, is a combination public relations firm, advocacy organization, and pass-through funding entity for left-of-center organizations. It uses messaging techniques through all forms of media to promote the left-of-center framing of issues related to national security, ethnic and religious minority interests, and left-of-center electoral legislation. ReThink
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The Yavanna Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation that supports a variety of environmentalist groups that advocate for “degrowth” and radical changes to human societies in the name of environmental concerns and equity. It was founded in 2008 by its sole board member, Phillip H. Jensen. The foundation does not
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The Cabin Road Foundation (officially known as “Cabin Road Foundation 04042011” 1 ) is a private foundation located in San Francisco, California, associated with former professional tennis player Anne Matta, formerly known
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American Endowment Foundation (AEF) is a donor-advised fund (DAF) provider that manages over $4 billion in assets and consists of 10,000 individual donor-advised funds 1 serving donors in all 50 states.
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Third Plateau (sometimes called Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies) is a consulting firm that assists left-of-center nonprofits. Its clients have included the Democracy Funders Network, the Pritzker Innovation Fund, and the NDN Collective. According to co-founder Jonathan Kaufman, Third Plateau both consults on specific projects for large
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The Scott Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation that provides funding to various left-of-center organizations including Media Matters for America, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, and NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation.
