RCFP Challenge 2009

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Goal:

$2,500,000 

Current:

 $1,963,597  


For more information, contact Maria Gowen or Lois Lloyd at the Reporters Committee, (703) 807-2100, or contact us by e-mail.

RCFP Challenge 2009 Donors

The Reporters Committee would like to thank the following donors who have supported the Reporters Committee's Knight challenge grant.

$50,000 & Over

Associated Press

Hearst Corporation

New York Times Company

Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Inc.

E. W. Scripps Company

$25,000 - $49,999

CBS News

Discovery Communications, Inc.

Tribune Company

William & Judith Scheide

$10,000 - $24,999

ALM MEdia, Inc.

Around Foundation

Baker & Hostetler

Bloomberg

Boston Properties

CNN News Group

Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.

Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.

Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation

Freedom Forum

Gannett Company

Gannett Foundation

General Electric

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Goldman Sachs & Company

Philip L. Graham Fund

Home Box Office

Los Angeles Times

McClatchy Newspapers

The McGraw-Hill Companies

Morgan Stanley

National Geographic Society

National Public Radio

NBC Universal, Inc.

New York Times Compay Foundation

David B.Ottaway

The Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation

Random House

RR Donnelley

Schering-Plough Corporation

Sigma Delta Chi Foundation

Sonnenshein Nath & Rosenthal

Time, Inc.

Time Warner

Donald Trump Organization

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Verizon Foundation

The Washington Post

Williams & Connolly

$5,000 - $9,999

ABC News

Floyd Abrams

Allen & Company, Inc.

Argus Media, Inc.

Bloomberg

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune Foundation

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Foundation

Courtroom Television Network

Cox Newspapers

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dow Jones & Company

Dow Lohnes PLLC

Durst Organization

Forbes, Inc.

Frost Brown Todd

Gridiron Foundation

Knight Ridder, Inc.

Media News Group

National Freedom of Information Coalition

Novartis Corporation

Russell Investment Group

Vicki & Roger Sant

Scholastic, Inc.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Star Tribune Foundation

Wilmer Cutler & Pickering

$1,000 - $4,999

Albuquerque Journal

Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Comm

Charles Babcock

Robert & Rita Barnett

Martin Bashir

The Belo Foundation

Robert Bertsche

Wolf Blitzer

Chip Bok

Bonneville International Corporation

Katherine & David Bradley

Brill Journalism Enterprises

Jay W. Brown

Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

Peter Canfield

Patrick Carome

Century Foundation

B & S Choslovsky Foundation

C-SPAN

Community Foundation for the National Capital Region

Copley Newspapers

Covington & Burling

Creators Syndicate

Walter Cronkite

James & Joanne Dalglish

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dorsey & Whitney

The Howard & Ursula Dubin Foundation

Richard Dunham

David Ellenhorn

Steven Emmert

Heide Endo

Linda Fibich

Forbes Foundation

Freedom Communications, Inc.

Sara Fritz

Murray Fromson

Martin Garbus

Stephen Geimann & Carol Sadler

Kevin Goering

Jamie Gorelick

Fred Graham

Linda Greenhouse

John C. Henry

Cragg Hines

HISCOX Underwriting Group Services, Ltd.

Deborah Howell

G. Paul Howes

Incisive Media

Katz Media Group

Kiplinger Foundation

Edward Labaton

Stephen Labaton

Stephen Langdon

James & Kate Lehrer

Warren Lerude

Lazard Freres & Company

Vanessa Leggett

Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz

MAN Roland, Inc.

Cindy MacLean

Anthony Mauro

Andrea McCarren

McClatchy Company Foundation

McCormick Tribune Foundation

Andrews McMeel Universal Foundation

Minnesota Newspaper Association

Newspaper Association of America

Jack Nelson

New York Newspapers Foundation

Nixon Peabody LLP

James & Mary Ottaway, Jr.

Charles Pieper

Playboy Enterprises

E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.

Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye

Random House, Inc.

Ruder Finn Inc.

Cristine Russell/Benjamin Heineman

Russert Family Foundation

Laura Rychak

Schaeffers Investment Research

Bob Schieffer

The Shubert Organization, Inc.

Paul Smith

Sony Corporation of America

Stephens Media

Steptoe & Johnson

Saundra Torry

USA Today

Warren Communications News, Inc.

Washington Newspaper Publishing Company

Washington Times

Peter Weitzel

Judy Woodruff

Up to $999

Daniel Abrams

John R. Adams

Akron Beacon Journal

Josephine Allen

American Media Operations

John Weir Anderson

Jonathan Anderson

Philip S. Anderson

Anniston Star

Stuart Applebaum

David Ardia

Robert Armstrong

Robert & Jane Asher

Betsy Ashton

Associated Press Associations of New York

Charles Babcock

Guy Baehr

Mark Bailen

Michael Bamberger

Robert & Rita Braver Barnett

Hazel & Robert Becker

John & Valerie Bender

Johanna Bennett

Alan & Susan Berlow

Mary Blake

Bliss Communications

Goldie Blumenstyk

David Boardman

Kevin Bohn

Chip Bok

Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Ross Brennan & Mary Agnes Carey

Eunice Bridges

Jane Briggs-Bunting

David & Ann Broder

Merrill Brown

Fred Bruning

The Buffalo News

Marcia Bullard & Thomas McNamara

Susan Burgess & Mason Kalfus

Scott Burns

Charles Burris, Jr.

Capital City Press

Richard & Susan Carelli

W. Hodding Carter, III

L. Antrim Caskey

Henry Cauvin

Arlene & Irwin Chapman

Ann Clark

Patricia Clark

Carolyn Clarke

Douglas Clifton

Adam & Ann Clymer

Cathryn & Darrell Cochran

Loren A. Cochran

Shelby Coffey

Sarah Cohen

Catherine Connolly

Faith Coolidge

Couglas Cooper

John Cosgrove

Frank & Jan Craig

Clare Crawford-Mason

Mercer Cross

Valerie Crotty

Thomas Curley

Philip Currie

CWA Newspaper Guild

James C. Dalglish

Lucy A. Dalglish

Karen Davis

Daytona Beach News-Journal

The Decatur Daily

Kenneth Deed

Monica Dias

Jill Dougherty

James Doyle

Janet Duke

Richard Dunham

Sarah Duran

Eagle Publishing, Inc.

John Eastburg

Educational Broadcasting Corporation

Robert Egelko

Mel Elfin

Jane Elizabeth

Espanola Sun

Eugene Register-Guard

Randall Evans

Douglas & Judith Feaver

The Findlay Publishing Company

Mary Lou Foy

Harold Fuson, Jr.

George Gabel, Jr.

The Gardner News

Brent Gardner-Smith

Mara Gassmann

Ashley Gauthier

GE Foundation

James Gerstenzang

Jeff Gerth

Theodore & Kathryn Gest

Michael Getler

Neil Gillespie

Ken Gleason

Glens Falls Post Star

Andrew & Eleanor Glass

Glens Falls Post Star

Kevin Goldberg

Harvey Goldschmid

James Goodale

S. Mark Goodman

Marcy Gordon

Robert & Phyllis Greenberger

Linda Greenhouse

The Greenwood Commonwealth

Barbara Gref

Robert Griffin

Drew Griffith

Jonathan Groner

Kimberly Gross

Guy Gugliotta

Maryann Haggerty

Don Hamilton

Renee Hammel

Lubbie Harper, Jr.

Terrence Harper

Christi Harlan

Scott Hensley

Nat Hentoff

Robert Hershey Jr.

Craig Hines

Hiscox Media Insurance

Eric Hodes

Max Holland

Home News Enterprises

James Houpt

Karen G. Houston

Deborah Howell

Catharine Huddle

Repps & Stacey Hudson

Diana Huffman

Hunton & Williams

Sidney & Carol Hurlburt

John Hurley

Ron Hutcheson

Ann Imse

Professor M H Sam Jacobson

Claudia James

Janesville Gazette

Linda& Steven Jenning

Journal Gazette Foundation, Inc.

Stephen Joyce

Sheilah Kast

Daniel Katz & April Fulton

Michael & Carol Kelleher

Alfred O. Kelly

Dennis & Patricia Kelly

John H. Kennedy

Carole Kennon

Saundra Keyes

Jane E. Kirtley

Richard & Rosslyn Kleeman

Elizabeth Koehl & Robert Dreps

Bill Kovach

David Koskoff

Durrell & Ernestine Kreisher

Jim Kuhnheim & Louise Reynolds

Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.

Forrest Landon

Paula Lavigne

Lawrence Journal-World

Thomas Leatherbury

Lehman Communications Corp

Margaret Lehrman

Warren Lerude

Carl Leubsdorf & Susan Page

Dan Lewerenz

Frances Lewine

Charles Lewis

Neil Lewis

Robert & Jacqueline Lewis

Sharon Liebhaber

A. J. Liebling

Dahlia Lithwick

Mike Littwin

Livingston Enterprise

Vivien Low

Abbe David Lowell

John & Martha Lubell

Alice Neff Lucan

Robert & Jean Marie Lystad

Myra MacPherson

Maine Association of Broadcasters

Vladimir Makhlis

The Manhattan Mercury

James Mann & Croline Dexter

Jennifer Mansfield

Kathleen Kennedy Manzo

John and Sara Mashek

Richard Mauer & Barbara Jacobs

Michael McBee

Thomas & Kathryn McCarthy

Bill McCloskey

McGregor Links Foundation

Toby McIntosh

Joan McKinney

James McLaughlin

Doyle McManus

Thomas McNamara & Marcia Bullard

Meriden Record-Journal

Mike & Gloria Michaelson

Alan Miller

Judith Miller

Kirsten Mitchell

Moline Dispatch Publishing Company

Char & Andrew Mollison

John Monk

Ben Murphy

Museum of TV & Radio

National Press Foundation, Inc.

Nevada Press Association

New York Press Association

Anne Newman

Newport(RI)Daily News

Eric Newton

Nimby Enterprises

Caroline Nguyen

North Dakota Newspaper Association

Lynn Oberlander

Ohio Newspapers Foundation

The Oklahoman

Bao Ong

Open Society Institute

Bonnie Optekman

Joseph C. O\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Reilly II

Ronald Ostrow

James Ottaway, Jr.

Alan & Jane Otten

Charles Overby

Geneva Overholser

Paddock Publications, Inc.

Paducah Sun

Sylvia Parsons

Sandra Peddie

Peoria Journal Star

Gordon Peterson

Post & Courier Foundation

Robert Phelps

Jeffrey Plungis

Walter Pincus

Timothy Potts & Ms. Lu Conser

Quad City Times

Francis Quine

Quill Press Company

David Randall

Judson Randall

Reading Eagle Company

Sean Reilly

Amanda Reimherr

Beth Reinhard

Rachelle Reyner

Louise Reynolds

Rio Grande Sun

Steve & Cokie Roberts

Marcus Rosenbaum

Robert & Faye Rosenblatt

Seth Rosenfeld

Stephen Rosenfeld

James Rowley

Tonda Rush

John & Neille Russell

San Antonio Express-News

John C. Sanders

David & Laura Savage

Anne Sawyer

Bob Schieffer

Mark Schleifstein

Seaton Publishing Company

Curt Seifert

Charles Sennett

Nathan Siegel

Peggy Simpson

Paul Sisco

Thomas Shanahan

Donald Shannon

Marci Shatzman

Alicia Shepard

Mark Sherman

Andrea Sholler & Bart Mosley

Nathan Siegel

L. V. Silvester III

Hedrick Smith

Paul Smith

Smith-Geiger

South Bend Tribune

South Carolina Press Association

Linda Steckley

Strausnews

Student Press Law Center

Tallmadge United Methodist Church

Robert Timberg

Jeremy & Isabelle Tennenbaum

Audrey Thayer

Thomas & LoCicero

Gregg D. Thomas

Pierre Thomas

Robert & Candus Thomson

Charles & Nancy Tobin

James & Sally Ryan Tomlinson

Victoria Tomlinson

Nina Totenberg

Tyler Morning Telegraph

Michael Vadnie

Elizabeth Viele

Robert & Martha Walters

Sanford Watzman

Seth Waxman

Wehco Media

Jack Weiss III

Stephen Wermiel

West Plains Daily Quill

Western Comunications

David Westphal

Wiley Rein LLP

Williams & Anderson

John Williams

Paul Williams

Nanci Wilson

Cynthia Wineburgh

Robert Woodward

Martin Yant

D. R. Zimmerman

Jeremy Zremski

Bequests for Gene Miller:

Nicholas L. Adde

Jane Arogeti

Susana Barciela

Richard Bard

Eunice Baros

Ann Bartlett

Mary Blake

Tyler Bridges

Geoffrey Brigham

Frederick Bruning

Jane Bussey

Robert Buzzelli

Arlene Carey-Travis

John S. Carroll

Steven Chaykin

Douglas Clifton

Adam & Ann Clymer

Mary Jean Connors

Trenton Daniel

James Defede

Thomas Fiedler

Jooan Fleischman & James Casey

Friendship Fellowship of LA

Anita Gay

Ronald Greene

Stephen Guback, Jr.

Beatrice Hines

Joseph Hinshaw

Jol Hirschhorn

John Hopkins

Martha Hubbart

R. Larry Jinks

Lauren Jorgensen

Michael Kerwin

Michael Klein

Knight Ridder Inc. Fund

Gerald Kogan

Brenda Krebs

James Kukar

Lynn & William Lazarus

James Mann

Gail Meadows

Timothy McGrane

Nancy McHugh

John McMullan

Gail Meadows

Philip Meyer

The Miami Herald

Mary Mullin

Charles Musgrove

Anastasia O\'Brien

Yolanda Pagano

David Peirce

Edwin Popoe

Pal Posnak

Scott Ray

Beth Marcia Reinhard

C. P. Richardson

Andrews Rivero

Carol Rosenberg

Steven Rothaus

David Rowen

James Russ

Anne Schultz

Sylvia Sheldon

Madeline Shirley

Neal Sonnett

Albert Nicholas Spangler

Robin Spellman Trust

Grace Tamayo

Nuri Vallbona

Elissa Vanaver

Patricia Vasquez

David Velen

Judith Wasil

Heather Wecsler

Marilyn Weeks

Louise Weinstein

Peter Weitzel

D. R. Zimmerman

Bequests for William Eaton:

Ian and Jane Campbell

Mosely Cross III

L. Keither Gardiner

John and Ruth Harris

Robert Herguth

Robert Jackson

Norman Kempster

John & Betty Kole

Marcia McHam

Alan C. Miller

Joel Moss

George Myers

Jack Nelson

Ronald Ostrow

Ralph Otwell

Robert Signer

Barry Spector

Jane & Richard Ward

Jules Witcover

Bequests for David Rosenbaum:

Charles Babcock & Carolyn Bowers

Stephen Langdon

Michael Kelleher

Libby Lewis

Marcus Rosenbaum

Bob & Patricia Schieffer

Lionel & Marsha Schooler

C. Eugene Steuerle

Jonathan Winer