Center for Media and Democracy

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is an American non-profit organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. It publishes ALEC Exposed, BanksterUSA, PR Watch, and SourceWatch.[1]

Team

Name Position Notes
Alex Kotch Senior Investigative Reporter and Editor (2020-2022)[2] OptOut Media Foundation, Institute for Southern Studies

Funding

CMD has received funding from:[1:1]

  • American Legacy Foundation
  • Bauman Family Foundation
  • Careth Foundation
  • Carolyn Foundation
  • Changing Horizons Charitable Trust
  • Courtney's Foundation
  • CS Fund
  • Deer Creek Foundation
  • Educational Foundation of America
  • Ettinger Foundation
  • Ford Foundation
  • Foundation for Deep Ecology
  • Foundation for Political Management
  • Funding Exchange
  • Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
  • Grodzins Fund
  • Helena Rubinstein Foundation
  • HKH Foundation
  • Litowitz Foundation
  • Marisla Foundation
  • Mostyn Foundation
  • Open Society Foundations
  • Park Foundation
  • Public Welfare Foundation
  • Proteus Fund
  • V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation
  • Rockefeller Associates
  • Rockefeller Family Foundation
  • Rockwood Fund
  • Schwab Charitable[3]
  • Stern Family Fund
  • Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
  • Sunlight Foundation
  • Threshold Foundation
  • Tides Foundation
  • Town Creek Foundation
  • Turner Foundation
  • Wallace Global Fund
  • Winslow Foundation

Further reading


  1. About Us. PR Watch. Retrieved December 20, 2012, from http://archive.today/2012.12.20-233335/http://www.prwatch.org/finances.html ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Experience | Alex Kotch. LinkedIn. Retrieved October 24, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.10.24-233023/https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-kotch-1a862718/details/experience/ ↩︎

  3. Craver, J. (2013, December 7). Progressive watchdog group gets two big anonymous donations. Wisconsin State Journal. http://archive.today/2023.10.24-234322/https://madison.com/news/local/writers/jack_craver/progressive-watchdog-group-gets-two-big-anonymous-donations/article_fd110a62-5ea5-11e3-90ad-001a4bcf887a.html ↩︎

About the author
Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess is a Canadian writer, researcher and investigative reporter focused on issues of human rights and civil liberties, with a particular interest in the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founder of White Rose Intelligence.

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