President Trump Already a Boon for Nonprofit News Outlets

ProPublica doesn’t do partisanship. “We picked on the current administration and briefly on the one before that,” said ProPublica president Richard J. Tofel. “We’ll certainly pick on the next one.” The organization’s self-description says it “shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.”

That mission has received quite a boost in the hours since Donald Trump was declared the 45th president of the U.S.

“All of a sudden, we were running about 10 times the normal level,” Tofel tells the Erik Wemple Blog. Once ProPublica took note of the Trump bump, it sought to extend it by sending out a fundraising appeal—a nonpartisan one, that is