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ProPublica Funding | [Soros]

While the Sandler Foundation provided ProPublica with significant financial support, it has also received funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and the Atlantic Philanthropies.[13] ProPublica and the Knight Foundation have various connections. For example, Paul Steiger, President of ProPublica, is a trustee of the Knight Foundation.[14] In like manner, Alberto Ibarguen, the President and CEO of the Knight Foundation is on the board of ProPublica.[15] In 2010, it received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from George Soros' Open Society Foundations.[16]

ProPublica has attracted attention for the salaries it pays its top executives.[17][18] The head of ProPublica, Paul Steiger, was paid $571,687 in 2008, according to the company's tax filings.[19] The managing editor, Stephen Engelberg, was paid $343,463.[20][21] The large salaries have been widely criticized by other journalists and even some in the non-profit world as excessive.[22][22][23] Steiger is the former managing editor at the Wall Street Journal. Engelberg is a former New York Times editor who co-wrote the non-fiction book Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, with Times reporter Judith Miller. He was recently[when?] elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board.

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