Every journalist who knows the importance of "follow the money" admires the data driven investigations that are the hallmark of
@AsraNomani. Last October, a week before the New York mayoral election, she stitched together the complex ethno-religious web of progressive nonprofits and radical imams who had engineered Mamdani's rise to power. At the time, I was taping my "Journalism 101" course for the
@petersonacademy, and I cited her meticulous reporting of what she called the "Mamdani Machine" as a prime example of data journalism.
I'm glad to see she is back on familiar ground today, at the 'spontaneous' No Kings protest in Washington D.C., where she is talking about the more than 400 organizing groups, with a $3 billion annual revenue, and the familiar big-money funders, including George Soros, Neville Roy Singham, the Tides Foundation, and many others.
What I like about Asra's reporting is that most of her work relies on publicly available sources of information, including the often dense 990 tax filings of the groups themselves. It is tedious and time-consuming work but the results never cease to surprise.
I just finished taping the first four lectures of an 8-part course ‘Journalism 101’ for the
@petersonacademy today. Now back on Twitter and I see this prime example of what I told students about “following the money“ and data journalism. Great reporting 👇