"Big-money foundations are bankrolling media to cover their activism--By Derek Draplin
...And the Skillman Foundation has been funding reporting jobs at mainstream media and nontraditional news sources that report on its activities involving Detroit schools.
...The Skillman Foundation also funds Chalkbeat, a national nonprofit education news organization that has a Detroit bureau, while also being deeply involved in influencing public policy decisions for Detroit schools.
...The foundation also says it “embraces diversity and authentic inclusion in all areas of our work; we consider this a prerequisite for positive social change...
In the past, the Detroit-based foundation has aligned itself with anti-charter school interests.
...The W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek funded an “inclusion reporter” at WGVU Public Media, Grand Valley State University’s public radio station..."
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