Philanthropy is playing a growing role in emerging non-profit news organizations—Funder influence over the impartiality of this new brand of journalism can be avoided by maintaining a strict firewall between editorial and business operations, better ensuring editorial independence; similar to the way traditional for-profit advertiser-supported news organizations maintained their journalistic integrity: http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/7/21/more-funding-is-flowing-for-education-journalism-is-that-ok.html