Awards Directly to Media Outlets from the Gates Foundation. Source: The Gray Zone

• NPR- $24,663,066
• The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391   
• Cascade Public Media – $10,895,016
• Public Radio International (PRI.org/TheWorld.org)- $7,719,113
• The Conversation- $6,664,271
• Univision- $5,924,043
• Der Spiegel (Germany)- $5,437,294       
• Project Syndicate- $5,280,186
• Education Week – $4,898,240
• WETA- $4,529,400
• NBCUniversal Media- $4,373,500
• Nation Media Group (Kenya) – $4,073,194
• Le Monde (France)- $4,014,512
• Bhekisisa (South Africa) – $3,990,182
• El País – $3,968,184
• BBC- $3,668,657
• CNN- $3,600,000   
• KCET- $3,520,703
• Population Communications International (population.org) – $3,500,000
• The Daily Telegraph – $3,446,801
• Chalkbeat – $2,672,491   
• The Education Post- $2,639,193
• Rockhopper Productions (U.K.) – $2,480,392
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $2,430,949
• UpWorthy – $2,339,023
• Financial Times – $2,309,845
• The 74 Media- $2,275,344
• Texas Tribune- $2,317,163
• Punch (Nigeria) – $2,175,675
• News Deeply – $1,612,122
• The Atlantic- $1,403,453
• Minnesota Public Radio- $1,290,898
• YR Media- $1,125,000
• The New Humanitarian- $1,046,457
• Sheger FM (Ethiopia) – $1,004,600
• Al-Jazeera- $1,000,000
• ProPublica- $1,000,000
• Crosscut Public Media – $810,000
• Grist Magazine- $750,000
• Kurzgesagt – $570,000
• Educational Broadcasting Corp – $506,504
• Classical 98.1 – $500,000
• PBS – $499,997
• Gannett – $499,651
• Mail and Guardian (South Africa)- $492,974
• Inside Higher Ed.- $439,910
• BusinessDay (Nigeria) – $416,900
• Medium.com – $412,000   
• Nutopia- $350,000
• Independent Television Broadcasting Inc. – $300,000
• Independent Television Service, Inc. – $300,000
• Caixin Media (China) – $250,000
• Pacific News Service – $225,000
• National Journal – $220,638
• Chronicle of Higher Education – $149,994
• Belle and Wissell, Co. $100,000
• Media Trust – $100,000
• New York Public Radio – $77,290
• KUOW – Puget Sound Public Radio – $5,310

• International Center for Journalists- $20,436,938
• Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (Nigeria) – $3,800,357
• The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting – $2,432,552
• Fondation EurActiv Politech – $2,368,300
• International Women’s Media Foundation – $1,500,000
• Center for Investigative Reporting – $1,446,639
• InterMedia Survey institute – $1,297,545
• The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – $1,068,169
• Internews Network – $985,126
• Communications Consortium Media Center – $858,000
• Institute for Nonprofit News – $650,021
• The Poynter Institute for Media Studies- $382,997
• Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (Nigeria)  – $360,211
• Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies – $254,500
• Global Forum for Media Development (Belgium) – $124,823
• Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting – $100,000

The list of these organizations includes:

• Education Writers Association – $5,938,475
• National Newspaper Publishers Association – $3,249,176
• National Press Foundation- $1,916,172
• Washington News Council- $698,200
• American Society of News Editors Foundation – $250,000
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press- $25,000

Gates Foundation grants pertaining to the instruction of journalists include:

• Johns Hopkins University – $1,866,408
• Teachers College, Columbia University- $1,462,500
• University of California Berkeley- $767,800       
• Tsinghua University (China) – $450,000
• Seattle University – $414,524
• Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies – $254,500   
• Rhodes University (South Africa) – $189,000
• Montclair State University- $160,538
• Pan-Atlantic University Foundation – $130,718
• World Health Organization – $38,403
• The Aftermath Project- $15,435

The BMGF also pays for a wide range of specific media campaigns around the world. For example, since 2014 it has donated $5.7 million to the Population Foundation of India in order to create dramas that promote sexual and reproductive health, with the intent to increase family planning methods in South Asia. Meanwhile, it alloted over $3.5 million to a Senegalese organization to develop radio shows and online content that would feature health information. Supporters consider this to be helping critically underfunded media, while opponents might consider it a case of a billionaire using his money to plant his ideas and opinions into the press.

Media projects supported by the Gates Foundation:

• European Journalism Centre – $20,060,048
• World University Service of Canada – $12,127,622
• Well Told Story Limited – $9,870,333
• Solutions Journalism Inc.- $7,254,755   
• Entertainment Industry Foundation – $6,688,208   
• Population Foundation of India- $5,749,826 –
• Participant Media – $3,914,207
• Réseau Africain de l’Education pour la santé- $3,561,683
• New America – $3,405,859
• AllAfrica Foundation – $2,311,529
• Steps International – $2,208,265
• Center for Advocacy and Research – $2,200,630
• The Sesame Workshop – $2,030,307
• Panos Institute West Africa – $1,809,850        
• Open Cities Lab – $1,601,452   
• Harvard university – $1,190,527
• Learning Matters – $1,078,048
• The Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center- $981,631
• Thomson Media Foundation- $860,628
• Communications Consortium Media Center – $858,000
• StoryThings- $799,536
• Center for Rural Strategies – $749,945
• The New Venture Fund – $700,000   
• Helianthus Media – $575,064   
• University of Southern California- $550,000
• World Health Organization- $530,095
• Phi Delta Kappa International – $446,000
• Ikana Media – $425,000
• Seattle Foundation – $305,000
• EducationNC – $300,000
• Beijing Guokr Interactive – $300,000   
• Upswell- $246,918
• The African Academy of Sciences – $208,708   
• Seeking Modern Applications for Real Transformation (SMART) – $201,781
• Bay Area Video Coalition- $190,000
• PowHERful Foundation – $185,953
• PTA Florida Congress of Parents and Teachers – $150,000   
• ProSocial – $100,000   
• Boston University – $100,000
• National Center for Families Learning – $100,000   
• Development Media International – $100,000
• Ahmadu Bello University- $100,000
• Indonesian eHealth and Telemedicine Society – $100,000
• The Filmmakers Collaborative – $50,000
• Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Georgia Inc. – $25,000   
• SIFF – $13,000

BMGF’s partnership with ViacomCBS, the company that controls CBS News, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and BET. Media reports at the time noted that the Gates Foundation was paying the entertainment giant to insert information and PSAs into its programming and that Gates had intervened to change storylines in popular shows like ER and Law & Order: SVU.

The Gates Foundation has given far and wide to academic sources, with at least $13.6 million going toward creating content for the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.