{"id":1783309,"date":"2022-12-21T22:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T03:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783309"},"modified":"2022-12-21T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T03:19:16","slug":"george-soros-funding-criminal-justice-reform-plants-in-legacy-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-soros-funding-criminal-justice-reform-plants-in-legacy-media\/","title":{"rendered":"George Soros Funding Criminal Justice Reform Plants In Legacy Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fgeorge-soros-funding-criminal-justice-reform-plants-in-legacy-media%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=1783309&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>Democratic megadonor George Soros will pay journalists anywhere from $63,000 to $85,000 to advance progressive criminal justice reform.<\/p>\n<p>Soros is offering media fellowships, or \u201cSoros Justice Fellowships,\u201d through his nonprofit: the Open Society Foundations (OSF). Fellows must produce projects that align with Soros\u2019 goals of reducing incarceration rates and sentencing guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Media fellowships last 12 months, with the expectation that fellows make the projects their full-time work. Up to three people may apply jointly for a single fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists aren\u2019t the only ones eligible for these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/soros-justice-fellowships?current=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fellowships<\/a>. OSF offers three distinct categories of fellowship funding \u2014 advocacy, media, and youth activism \u2014 which may pay up to six figures, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/onsa.asu.edu\/scholarship\/soros-justice-fellowships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scholarship data<\/a> provided to universities. These categories qualify a wide variety of professions such as lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, artists, and filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire has reported over the years, Soros Justice Fellowship alums have made headlines for their activism \u2014 this includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lapd-will-not-seek-charges-against-some-people-it-arrests-instead-taking-them-to-social-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark-Anthony Johnson<\/a>, longtime ally of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nations-largest-jail-system-host-voter-jeffrey-cawood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Burton<\/a>, founder of the criminal justice reform activist group, A New Way of Life (ANWOL).<\/p>\n<p>The fellowship program isn\u2019t new \u2014 Soros has offered this funding for over 25 years. Since the program\u2019s inception, a total of 469 individuals have received fellowships. Most of the earliest fellows involved in media went on to become acclaimed journalists across a variety of major legacy outlets.<\/p>\n<p>The following are current fellows involved in mainstream media, out of 18 total fellows for 2022:<\/p>\n<p>Yasmine Arrington, of Washington, D.C., will produce a podcast featuring only \u201cBlack and brown youth voices\u201d discussing the criminal justice system, including juvenile probation, reentry, and recidivism. Arrington has written for TeenVogue, Essence, Black Enterprise, Forbes Magazine, Washington Post, and Baltimore Times.Zachary Siegel, of Chicago, Illinois, will write and narrate news coverage concerning current approaches to overdose deaths. Siegel has written for Harper\u2019s Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, New Republic, WIRED, Politico, and Scientific American.Irene Franco Rubio, a Phoenix, Arizona, native attending the University of Southern California, will produce a podcast on juvenile minority incarceration and their criminalization in public school systems. Franco Rubio has written for Forbes, USA Today, Teen Vogue, and NPR, as well as worked for Michelle Obama\u2019s nonprofit. Franco Rubio was recognized as a scholar by a number of prominent groups: Facebook Journalism Project, Marguerite Casey Foundation\u2019s Equal Voice News, International Center for Journalists, and ProPublica Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Several current fellowships went to budding journalist-activists:<\/p>\n<p>Tiera Howleit, a student reporter at Indiana University\u2019s collegiate paper. Howleit\u2019s fellowship profile says that she will use the funds to \u201celevate the voices of people of color [\u2026] impacted by the criminal justice system.\u201d Howleit founded \u201cBlack Collegians\u201d in 2020, a social justice advocacy group.Katherine Owojori, a pre-law student at USC, will work with Franco Rubio to produce the above-mentioned podcast. Owojori is an active member of Black Lives Matter: Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Past fellows involved in mainstream media, in the order in which their fellowship was awarded:<\/p>\n<p>Cloee Cooper \u2013 PBS, The John Oliver Show, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Politico, Nevada Public Radio, Spectrum TVContessa Gayles \u2013 CNN, VICE, PBS Frontline, CBS, Wired, Al Jazeera, VoxLam Thuy Vo \u2013 Buzzfeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, NPR, ProPublica, The Guardian, The New York Times, ESPNMay Jeong \u2013 Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Harper\u2019s, The InterceptShanita Hubbard \u2013 The New York Times, HuffPost, Essence Magazine, Fusion, The RootCynthia Greenlee \u2013 The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Vox, Self, Harper\u2019s Bazaar, The Counter, American Prospect, Dissent, Ebony, Elle, Longreads, Salon, SmithsonianDonovan Ramsey \u2013 The New York Times, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Ebony, GQ, New Republic, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, EssenceJenni Monet \u2013 The Guardian, Yes! Magazine, Los Angeles Times, PBS, Al Jazeera, Indian Country Today, Columbia Journalism ReviewJulieta Martinelli \u2013 Futuro Media, Nashville Public Radio, CBS, Real Atlanta Magazine, Gwinnett Daily PostJames Kilgore \u2013 Medium, WIRED Magazine, Al Jazeera, SalonKatie Rose Quandt \u2013 The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Appeal, The Nation, Vice, Slate, Mother Jones, Brooklyn Magazine, America MagazineEbony Underwood \u2013 Huffington Post, Vibe, USA Today, The Appeal, Vibe, MicIsaac Bailey \u2013 The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Time, Esquire, CNN, Nieman ReportsNick August-Perna \u2013 National Geographic, PBS, HBO, Vox, ViceJudith Levine \u2013 Harper\u2019s Bazaar, The New York Times, Vogue, Mother Jones, The Nation, Boston Review, SalonMaia Szalavitz \u2013 The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Elle, New York Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, NPRAlisa Roth \u2013 NPR, CBS, PRI\u2019s The World, Marketplace, The New York Times, Business Week, NationMark Obbie \u2013 The Atlantic, The Trace, Politico, The New York Times, The American Lawyer, Texas Lawyer, Houston Post, Pacific Standard, Inc. Magazine, SlateOsagie Obasogie \u2013 The New York Times, Slate, Scientific American, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New ScientistSeth Freed Wessler \u2013 Associated Press, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic megadonor George Soros will pay journalists anywhere from $63,000 to $85,000 to advance progressive criminal justice reform. Soros is offering media fellowships, or \u201cSoros Justice Fellowships,\u201d through his nonprofit: the Open Society Foundations (OSF). Fellows must produce projects that align with Soros\u2019 goals of reducing incarceration rates and sentencing guidelines. 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