ProPublica was the brainchild of ((( Herbert and Marion Sandler ))), the former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corporation, who have committed $10 million a year to the project.[9] The Sandlers hired ((( Paul Steiger ))), former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, to create and run the organization as editor in chief. At the time ProPublica was set up, Steiger responded to concerns about the role of the political views of the Sandlers, saying on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer:
There doesn't seem to be anything here yet