The Intercept
The Intercept is published by nonprofit Intercept Media, Inc. and governed by a board rather than equity owners. Its current Form 990 identifies the organization, directors, officers, revenue sources and expenses.
The outlet's transition away from its original First Look structure makes current records more important than founder-era descriptions. Nonprofit funding remains relevant even without shareholders.
From screen to controller
Do not trust the diagram.
Open the proof.
Primary means the company, regulator, court, filing, or outlet made the disclosure directly. Partial records show exactly which link is documented and which link is still unresolved.
Proves: The outlet identifies its nonprofit model, current mission and published financial reporting.
Does not prove: This record establishes the stated corporate or institutional fact. It does not establish editorial causation beyond that disclosure.
Proves: The IRS return identifies the nonprofit, directors and officers and reports revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities.
Does not prove: This record establishes the stated corporate or institutional fact. It does not establish editorial causation beyond that disclosure.
How the outlet earns
What else sits nearby
The nonprofit also administers support connected to press-freedom cases.
What the records do not settle
These are research targets, not insinuations. A missing disclosure stays missing until a primary record answers it.
- 01Which parts of this ownership structure overlap with subjects the newsroom covers?
- 02What formal safeguards separate ownership and business operations from editorial decisions?
What Gen Us observed
This is a sample of analyzed stories, not a permanent rating of every article the outlet publishes.
Ownership is evidence of control structure, not proof of editorial causation.
To claim that an owner changed coverage, Gen Us requires separate evidence tied to a decision, communication, policy, or documented intervention. That distinction is the point of this database.