{"id":1760355,"date":"2022-12-03T05:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760355"},"modified":"2022-12-03T05:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:03:55","slug":"new-washington-post-communications-chief-moonlights-as-board-member-of-far-left-activist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-washington-post-communications-chief-moonlights-as-board-member-of-far-left-activist-group\/","title":{"rendered":"New Washington Post Communications Chief Moonlights as Board Member of Far-Left Activist Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-washington-post-communications-chief-moonlights-as-board-member-of-far-left-activist-group%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760355&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> announced in October that it was welcoming a new communications chief. The paper\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/pr\/2022\/10\/25\/kathy-baird-named-chief-communications-officer-washington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official announcement<\/a> lauded Kathy Baird, a veteran of Nike and the public relations giant Ogilvy, as a &#8220;key strategic partner&#8221; positioned to &#8220;realize our ambitious vision for the publication.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also noted her membership in the &#8220;Rosebud Sioux Tribe&#8221; and service on the board of IllumiNative, which it described as &#8220;a nonprofit working for accurate and authentic portrayal of Native people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one way to put it. IllumiNative is a self-described &#8220;racial justice organization&#8221; funded by a dark money behemoth that encourages elementary school students to fight for Democratic Party initiatives like universal health care. Its purpose is similar to various far-left activist groups, focusing on &#8220;breaking through systems of white supremacy&#8221; and &#8220;grassroots organizing,&#8221; according to IllumiNative&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>IllumiNative is funded in part by New Venture Fund, which is itself funded by the left-wing dark money behemoth Arabella Advisors. New Venture Fund recorded nearly $1 billion in donations in 2021 and was called &#8220;a leading vehicle for [dark money] on the left&#8221; by the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/13\/business\/media\/wyss-tribune-company-buyer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>. It is unclear how much money the New Venture Fund has given IllumiNative since its 2018 founding, and federal financial disclosure laws do not require the organization to reveal it. Other left-wing charities such as the MacArthur Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation have given IllumiNative millions of dollars over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Baird\u2019s role at IllumiNative raises questions about the place of political activism in the newsrooms\u2014and the extent to which it undercuts a news product that is supposed to be nonpartisan. It is unclear whether Baird will recuse herself from issues surrounding the coverage of Democratic dark-money groups, including Arabella. <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> declined to comment on Baird&#8217;s affiliations. Asked whether she would recuse herself from participating in issues related to Arabella, a spokeswoman said Baird &#8220;is a member of the executive team, overseeing Communications, Events and Brand Marketing and is not a part of the editorial staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Post<\/em> has almost entirely avoided coverage of Arabella Advisors, a curious editorial decision given the group&#8217;s central role as a dark money hub for the Democratic Party. The\u00a0Free Beacon\u00a0could only find two instances where Arabella Advisors is mentioned by the paper. Both were pieces by fact-checker Glenn Kessler targeting Republicans. In one of them, Kessler describes the dark money group as a &#8220;back-office processor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Educational<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post announced in October that it was welcoming a new communications chief. The paper\u2019s official announcement lauded Baird, a veteran of Nike and the public relations giant Ogilvy, as a &#8220;key strategic partner&#8221; positioned to &#8220;realize our ambitious vision for the publication.&#8221;\u00a0<br \/>\nThe post New Washington Post Communications Chief Moonlights as Board Member of Far-Left Activist Group appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1760358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}