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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has doled out over $319 million in grants, awards, and charity to media organizations, including $38 million to so-called investigative journalism centres.

According to Mint Press News (MPN), which sorted through over 30,000 documents, Bill Gates has given roughly $38 million to investigate journalism centres aimed at training journalists. Of this sum, over $20 million has gone to the International Center for Journalists, which builds the expertise and digital skills journalists need to deliver trustworthy news essential for vibrant societies.

The generous donations given to the ICFJ over several years have been given with the express purpose of producing journalists who focus on data-driven health and development news reports to help African media to better contribute to setting development agendas and furthering public accountability, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations website.

Producing health-obsessed investigative journalists is a common trend with Gates.

According to the Foundations website, the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism received its grant ($3,800,357) to support sustained high-quality, evidence-based, and solutions-oriented media coverage of global health and development issues in Primary Health Care systems, Agriculture & Financial Inclusion.

Other recipients of over $1 million include The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting ($2,432,552) to support editorial projects focused on global health issues, Fondation EurActiv Politech ($2,368,300), International Womens Media Foundation ($1,500,000), Center for Investigative Reporting $1,446,639, InterMedia Survey institute ($1,297,545), and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ($1,068,169).

Put simply, it appears Bill Gates wants to install a personal army of professional scrutineers in various media outlets that disseminate his position on healthcare and propaganda about public officials who deviate.

Gates also, of course, funds the journalism programs of several universities, including Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, the University of California Berkeley, Tsinghua University, Seattle University, Rhodes University, and Montclair State University.

Harvard University (of which Gates is a dropout), the University of Southern California, Boston University, and Ahmadu Bello University have also received money from Gates Foundation to take on various media projects.

Producing new journalists isnt the only area in media that Gates is focusing on, though. He also targets experienced journalists in legacy media organizations. According to MPNs report, a total of $166.2 million has been given to well-known legacy media organizations.

The money is generally directed towards issues close to the Gateses hearts. For example, the $3.6 million CNN grant went towards report[ing] on gender equality with a particular focus on least developed countries, producing journalism on the everyday inequalities endured by women and girls across the world, while the Texas Tribune received millions to to increase public awareness and engagement of education reform issues in Texas. Given that Bill is one of the charter schools most fervent supporters, a cynic might interpret this as planting pro-corporate charter school propaganda into the media, disguised as objective news reporting, reports MPN.

Just over one decade ago, Bill Gates was under fire for his attempt to control the media through spread-out donations, but this fire seems to have flickered out until recently.

Beyond their subject matter, these [health report stories] have something else in common: They were all bankrolled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seattle Times wrote in 2011.

Better-known for its battles against global disease, the giant philanthropy has also become a force in journalism.

The foundations grants to media organizations such as ABC and The Guardian, one of Britains leading newspapers, raise obvious conflict-of-interest questions: How can reporting be unbiased when a major player holds the purse strings?

Unsurprisingly, the Seattle Times and the Blethen Corporation do not appear to have ever received money from Bill Gates.

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Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. published an article on Tuesday saying hes "excited" that America looks more poised than ever to start restricting guns.

Bacon started his piece stating that the recent bipartisan gun violence deal "between 10 Republican and 10 Democratic senators is better than nothing" but it doesnt "really address the central problem the broad availability and circulation of guns in the United States."

Though the author claimed hes not worried, because more Americans in general want guns restricted.

"The recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Tex., have cemented two big, important shifts on gun policy that were already happening and wont be slowed by the passage of a minor congressional bill," he wrote.

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"First," the columnist explained, "those involved in public policy who are not accountable to hardcore Republican voters have come to agree that guns are the problem."

Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. claimed that America is more poised than ever to restrict guns like the AR-15. (AP)

"As a result, many in the media, top Democratic Party officials, think tanks and advocacy groups that dont usually focus on guns are all pushing for policies such as banning the sale and ownership of military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines," Bacon explained.

The author also pointed to the fact that professionals who think that mental health and other circumstances heavily factor into gun violence, also think there are too many guns, is a tell-tale sign things will change. "Just as significantly, the reality-based policy community now agrees that while addressing, say, mental health, gangs and school security might help, what makes gun violence so prevalent in America is the unusually high number of guns in circulation."

The author also claimed that going after guns would address crime more broadly. "Centering guns as the problem unifies issues that are often discussed separately: mass shootings at schools and in other public spaces; shootings that happen among acquaintances or rival gangs; instances where people shoot spouses or partners; and suicides," he wrote.

He argued there was one solution: "fewer guns."

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Bacon moved to the second shift which is "that the national Democratic Party is no longer afraid of gun control." He provided the example of strategists claiming that Al Gore lost the presidential race in 2000 because his support of gun control cost him the south. Though he claimed that Democrats have realized their "struggles in the South were part of a broader political realignment."

Thus, they dont have to be as afraid of gun control. In addition, "the sheer number of catastrophic mass shootings over the past decade has basically forced Democrats to take on this issue," he added.

Optimistically, Bacon admitted that though there arent enough Senate Democrats to push through serious gun control, he claimed that the fact that everyone, except "hardcore" Republicans, now wants to regulate guns is important for several reasons.

Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. claimed he was excited that more Americans are seeking gun restrictions in the wake of recent mass shootings. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

"First," he began, "clearly identifying guns as the problem is a big step toward finding actual solutions. Now, wealthy individuals, organizations and the Democratic Party know they must develop a comprehensive agenda aimed at reducing the number of guns in the United States and only backing candidates who believe in that goal," he wrote.

Bacon added, "Second, blue cities and states where Republicans arent a roadblock should pass strong gun regulation." He wrote that "Cities and states as well as philanthropic organizations should also seek innovative ways to encourage people to voluntarily either get rid of guns or not buy them in the first place."

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The authors last reason was that now everyone will start "demanding that GOP-appointed judges, including those on the Supreme Court, accept that some expansive gun-control measures are simply necessary for public safety."

Bacon then claimed that if said judges dont comply, "the only answer will be judicial reforms such as adding justices to shift the balance of the court toward common-sense gun policy."

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A banner hangs at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School, the site of the recent Texas school shooting. (AP/Eric Gay)

"So, no, Im not celebrating this bipartisan guns deal too much. But I am excited to see lots of powerful Americans, including top Democrats, get more serious about reducing the number of guns in the United States," he concluded.

Gabriel Hays is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @gabrieljhays.

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The front page of the local newspaper is seen in the media area outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26. Allison Dinner /AFP via Getty Images hide caption

The front page of the local newspaper is seen in the media area outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26.

What is the role of journalists when covering America's mass shooting crisis, and how can they responsibly report on tragedies like the recent shootings in Uvalde, Buffalo and Tulsa?

Those are complicated but crucial questions to answer, says Dannagal Young, a University of Delaware professor who studies the impact that news stories have on the public.

In particular, her research looks at whether the media has a bias in favor of covering specific events and individual people, instead of looking more broadly at what leads to tragedies such as mass shootings.

This difference is called episodically framed stories versus thematically framed stories.

Young unpacks why this matters, how the media should cover mass shootings, and the one question she says journalists should ask themselves.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

On episodically vs. thematically framed news stories

There was work that came out in the early '90s looking at whether or not the way that news stories are told could affect the kind of attributions of responsibility that viewers or readers might make. So, if you tell a news story about individual people, individual problems, really following that story narrative arc, is it possible that you're actually going to encourage those readers and listeners to attribute responsibility and look for solutions at the level of the individual in the story?

People visit memorials for victims of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption

People visit memorials for victims of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

On whether the Uvalde shooting was covered more episodically or more thematically

I think it depends on what outlets we're talking about. I have seen a whole lot of attention paid to more thematically framed coverage that looks at the history of gun control in the United States, rates of gun violence broken out by state, etc. Those thematically framed stories contextualize what happened in Texas within a broader framework a political framework, a cultural framework, a historical framework. That's thematic.

However, as the story began to unfold, and we did learn about failures at the level of the Uvalde Police and the school police in particular, some of those stories really began to focus on the individual people, as opposed to thinking more broadly about gun violence as an epidemic in the United States.

On how people understand news differently when it's more episodic and less thematic

When a story is told in terms of individual people, our brains are going to be activating constructs about this person in this place at this time. And we're naturally going to want to also protect ourselves and say, "Well, this awful thing wouldn't happen to me, because look it happened over there to those people in this place." And we're going to extrapolate from that and say, "If I don't do these things, I'm not in this place, and I'm not those people, this will not happen to me."

As opposed to when covered more thematically, broadly, in terms of systemic factors that may contribute to this trend, that is going to encourage people to think: What could the system do? What kind of legislation might be passed to address this issue?

Buffalo Police on scene at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14 in Buffalo after a gunman opened fire. John Normile/Getty Images hide caption

Buffalo Police on scene at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14 in Buffalo after a gunman opened fire.

On the question all journalists should ask themselves

The question that I wish that all journalists would always ask themselves is: What is going to help Americans understand not just this day, but this broader issue? What is going to help them figure out what action they might be able to take? What legislation might be able to come about? Those are the questions that need to be asked.

On whether she thinks journalists can do this without sounding like advocates in an inappropriate way

I do. Because it sounds as though I'm just talking about how we need to all talk about gun legislation and gun reform. But there are also conversations that need to be had about how we deal with mental health issues in this country, and how we deal with extremist groups in this country. Those are all conversations that would help Americans get closer to an understanding not just of the event, but of the broader issues underlying the event.

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Inter owners Suning will have to sell their majority shares in Inter by the end of the calendar year 2022, according to Italian media.

This is the claim of Rome-based newspaper La Repubblica, via FCInter1908, who report that the current owners will be forced to give up control of the Nerazzurri due to a new directive by the Chinese government regarding investment abroad.

Suning have been persistently linked with a sale of the Nerazzurri, usually due to the financial situation of the club, but also due to regulations that the Communist Party of China has been introducing limiting investment abroad.

According to La Repubblica, a new directive prohibiting non-strategic investment by Chinese companies in foreign businesses will affect Suning, who will have to give up control of Inter as a result.

Meanwhile, La Repubblica also reports that the Nerazzurri owners are hoping to get the new stadium plans moving quickly along with AC Milan so as to make the club a more attractive asset.

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee provided insight on a gun control bill and reflected on protecting children following the school shooting in Texas on "Special Report."

SHEILA JACKSON LEE: Well, this work has been done again out of the committee that I've served on, the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on Crime for more than two decades. I've introduced one gun bill after next and for your viewers, I was here for Columbine, was appointed to a task force to really haul in this use of the semiautomatic weapons, teenagers with guns, reckless access to guns, lack of universal background checks.

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I've seen it all, but I've seen now the carnage that is unspeakable. Within days of the carnage and Uvalde, I was there. I was there in church. I was there with families. I was there with children and one of the most painful scenes that you could ever have is the memories of the carnage, but as well, the children who live were standing with tears in their eyes as they look at the memorial of their fellow classmates and they're nine, they're ten, they're 11. Is that what America really is?

So, I do think that we passed a bill, Protect Our Kids Act, that was not left or right. It was a straightforward response to the American people. Lifting the age to 21 well-received, banning ghost guns that were utilized to shoot cops in Houston, Texas, banning bump stocks, dealing with magazines.

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Bret, let me just say this, I'm open. Let's make sure the package, however, is worthy of the tragedy that parents will never, never forget, or the little girl who lay dead and smeared herself with blood will live with for the rest of her life. Is this worthy of them?

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The parents in Uvalde said to me, we need a seven-day waiting period for semiautomatic weapons. I think that's something they can look at. So, we need to confront this where we're not against each other, but we're working with each other, and I am open to us working with each other.

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