Richard Tofel to Retire as ProPublica President; Board Launches Search for Successor
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ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Richard Tofel, its founding general manager and president since 2013, will retire from the company when a successor is in place, and that its Board of Directors has launched a nationwide search to fill the post. Tofel, who was ProPublica’s first employee in 2007, has led the business side of the investigative newsroom since its inception, and is responsible for all of ProPublica’s non-journalism operations, including communications, legal, development, finance and budgeting, and human resources. Blinkhorn LLC has been selected to guide the search, with Ann Blinkhorn as the lead recruiter. Under Tofel’s leadership, ProPublica has grown from an initial staff of fewer than 25 people to a projected staff of 175 by mid-2021, with an initial target annual budget of $10 million growing to nearly $36 million this year. During this period, the company has raised more than $210 million from donors beyond its founding funders, and amassed a cumulative reserve of $36.5 million. ProPublica had more than 43,000 donors in 2020, while recording record traffic to its content, and record revenues. It employs the largest staff in the nation devoted to inve...
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Feb 17, 2021