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#Journalism

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People (5)

  • Brian Chau Canadian olympiad mathematician who founded the anti-regulation AI think tank Alliance for the Future, left it in 2025, then founded Effort, a publication investigating Coefficient Giving's funding of journalists and policy staff.
  • Hal Hendrix Latin America correspondent who joined ITT in 1967, co-wrote its 1970 memorandum urging action against Allende, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator when his superiors were charged with lying to the Senate.
  • Julie K. Brown Miami Herald investigative reporter whose 2018 series Perversion of Justice prompted a Justice Department misconduct review of Epstein's plea deal and who intervened to unseal the Giuffre v. Maxwell record.
  • Will Henshall Science and technology reporter placed at Time through the Tarbell Fellowship in 2023 and 2024 who joined Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy, as a program officer for AI governance in July 2024.
  • William Bradford Huie Writer who in 1951 pressed the CIA on a 50,000 dollar bribe to French Communists and in 1968 bought James Earl Ray's story through his lawyers, paying Hanes and Foreman shares a court found irregular.

Organizations (5)

  • Politico Washington political news organization launched in January 2007 by John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei with Robert Allbritton's money, sold with Protocol and Politico Europe to Axel Springer in 2021.
  • Searchlight Magazine Searchlight is a British anti-fascist investigative magazine founded in 1962 that ran informants inside Combat 18 and the British neo-Nazi movement throughout the 1990s, published the first identification of David Myatt as Anton Long in April 1998, and worked with BBC Panorama to document David Copeland's links to the National Socialist Movement.
  • Semafor News company launched October 18, 2022 by Ben Smith and Justin Smith with 25 million dollars from investors including Sam Bankman-Fried, whose roughly 10 million dollars it repurchased in 2023 for FTX creditors.
  • Tarbell Center for AI Journalism Nonprofit launched in 2022 that pays early-career journalists placed in newsrooms to cover AI and publishes the newsletter Transformer; most of its funding comes from Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy.
  • Washington Examiner Washington political publication built from suburban Journal Newspapers, which Philip Anschutz bought through his new Clarity Media Group in 2004 and relaunched as a free daily in 2005.

Events (1)

  • Dark Alliance Dark Alliance was a three-part investigative series published by the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996, exposing links between CIA-backed Contra forces and the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.