Major Outlets Omit Tarbell Funding Disclosures for AI Reporters as Donor Group Paid 28 Fellows
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 4
Major Outlets Omit Tarbell Funding Disclosures for AI Reporters as Donor Group Paid 28 Fellows
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 4
Summary
$60,000-to-$110,000 Tarbell fellowships have placed at least 28 AI reporters at outlets including Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, the Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, but some stories did not disclose that support.
Time did not note Tarbell backing on a fellow's Anthropic article, and The Verge omitted it on a reporter's OpenAI coverage, fueling questions over how disclosure standards are applied.
Tarbell says fellows and host outlets must disclose the relationship on author pages and that donors have no editorial control; it added that only six fellows are currently active between fellowship cycles.
Coefficient Giving has provided more than $4.7 million to Tarbell and is backed mainly by Dustin Moskovitz, an Anthropic investor, underscoring scrutiny of donor-linked AI coverage even as NBC has added story-level disclosure notes.