Mathew Ingram wirft in seinem Artikel in der Columbia Journalism Review einen kritischen Blick auf eine Studie zum stiftungsfinanzierten Journalismus. Er stellt fest: “foundation funding often shapes the issues a non-profit newsroom chooses to focus on, and how they go about reporting on them […]. Most foundation funding is focused on certain themes, such as global development or the environment [… and] the funding they provide inevitably pushes their grantees in certain directions”