by Jillian Kay Melchior
When InsideClimate News won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for national
reporting, one of its writers told the New York Times she hoped that
people who considered her publication advocacy journalism would take
note of the award and “stop making that mistake.”
InsideClimate News may be the most influential — and controversial —
environmental publication you’ve never heard of. Despite its tiny staff,
shoestring budget, and low name recognition, the nonprofit has won
several prestigious awards for its content and forged major partnerships
with, among others, the Associated Press, the Weather Channel, the
Guardian, and Bloomberg.
But its critics claim that InsideClimate News is essentially a
mouthpiece run by a public-relations consultancy that gets its funding
almost exclusively from groups with an environmental agenda. A National
Review examination of tax filings, corporate and trademark paperwork,
and other public records involving the nonprofit and its partners has
raised even more questions about InsideClimate News, its origins, and
its funding.
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