Outlet track record
MLK50 / ProPublica
U.S. left-leaning
MLK50 is a small nonprofit newsroom in Memphis, Tennessee, focused on poverty, race, and public policy; ProPublica is a large national nonprofit investigative outlet based in New York, founded with Sandler Foundation money and rated lean-left by AllSides. The two organizations have a formal reporting partnership—most notably on investigations into hospital debt collection targeting low-income patients. Both outlets' coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been broadly critical, with ProPublica running extensive investigations into immigration enforcement, DOGE agency cuts, and financial conflicts among Trump appointees.
Owned byBoth are independent nonprofits. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism is led by founder and editor Wendi C. Thomas; ProPublica is governed by a board of directors (current chair: Paul Sagan) and was seeded by Herbert and Marion Sandler of the Sandler Foundation.
LeaningU.S. left-leaning
On the administrationbroadly critical
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun