Post-Election Donations Show People Want Nonprofit Journalism

It did not take long after election night for the donations to start pouring in to America’s nonprofit journalism organizations.

Almost a month later, the money keeps coming, in $10 and $20 and sometimes $100 or more from small donors all over the country.

At the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., and its international investigative arm, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, individual donations are up about 70 percent compared to the same period last year.

The donor pool for the Marshall Project, a two-year-old outfit that examines the U.S. criminal justice system, is up 20 percent since the election.