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| Arthur L. Carter Journalists Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Name | Arthur L. Carter Journalists Foundation |
| Formation | 1986 |
| Founder | Arthur L. Carter |
| Type | Philanthropic foundation |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Location | United States |
Arthur L. Carter Journalists Foundation The Arthur L. Carter Journalists Foundation is a philanthropic organization established to support journalistic endeavors in the United States. Founded by Arthur L. Carter, the foundation has funded fellowships, grants, and awards for journalists associated with leading publications and institutions. Its activities have intersected with figures and organizations across American media, academia, and public policy.
The foundation was created in 1986 by Arthur L. Carter, a financier connected to Drexel Burnham Lambert, NBC, AOL, The New York Times Company, Bloomberg L.P., and Lehman Brothers. Early engagements linked the foundation to personalities such as William S. Paley, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, David Sarnoff, and institutions like Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, and New York University. Throughout the 1990s it collaborated with newsrooms including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Time (magazine), Newsweek, and The Atlantic. In the 2000s and 2010s the foundation's timeline shows interactions with digital-era entities like The Huffington Post, Politico, ProPublica, Vox (website), BuzzFeed, and The Intercept, alongside nonprofit organizations such as The Knight Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Ford Foundation.
The foundation's stated mission emphasizes support for investigative and public-interest journalism, aligning with figures and outlets like Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, and Jane Mayer. Activities include funding fellowships at academic centers such as Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University. Programmatic partnerships have involved media organizations like NPR, PBS, CBS News, ABC News, Fox News, and MSNBC, as well as nonprofits including Investigative Reporters and Editors and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The foundation has also supported projects intersecting with legal and policy arenas represented by American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and Transparency International.
Grantmaking has targeted mid-career reporters, investigative teams, and documentary producers associated with names such as Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour, Tom Brokaw, Diane Sawyer, Dan Rather, Maggie Haberman, Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Nikole Hannah-Jones. Fellowship programs have been hosted at institutions like Columbia Journalism Review, Shorenstein Center, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Poynter Institute, and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The foundation has provided production support for documentaries linked to Ken Burns, Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras, Errol Morris, and Michael Moore, and investigative collaborations that included Center for Public Integrity, ProPublica, Center for Investigative Reporting, Mother Jones, The Marshall Project, and Reveal. Awards and grants have complemented other honors such as the Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Award, Emmy Award, George Polk Awards, and National Magazine Awards.
Governance has reflected a board and advisory network connected to leaders from finance, media, and academia, including individuals associated with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, The Carlyle Group, and Blackstone Group, alongside media executives from Hearst Communications, Gannett, Tronc, Conde Nast, and ViacomCBS. The foundation's funding sources derive from endowments and private contributions comparable to gifts reported by donors such as Peter G. Peterson, Paul Singer, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, and Leonard Lauder. Financial stewardship has engaged accounting and legal firms like KPMG, Deloitte, McKinsey & Company, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Sullivan & Cromwell for governance and compliance matters.
Recipients include journalists, editors, and producers affiliated with The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Slate, The Guardian, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Review, New Republic, The Daily Beast, Real Clear Politics, Quartz, Axios, The Spectator, The Nation, Mother Jones (magazine), Harper's Magazine, and New York Post. Alumni lists feature individuals who later worked with political figures and institutions like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Mitch McConnell, and who contributed to inquiries such as Watergate scandal, Iran–Contra affair, 9/11 Commission Report, Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and Cambridge Analytica scandal. The foundation's grants have supported reporting that influenced policy debates involving Affordable Care Act, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Patriot Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and Freedom of Information Act litigation, and that complemented investigations by entities like Special Counsel (United States) and congressional committees. Its impact is reflected in recipient achievements including Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows, and fellows at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Aspen Institute, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.