Investigative journalists around the world relied on funding from the U.S. Now, those watchdogs are scrambling to survive a sudden cash crunch.

Galina Timchenko, publisher and chief executive of the investigative newsroom Meduza, thought she was ready for anything. The site, based in Latvia and known for its fearless reporting on Vladimir V. Putin’s regime, had prepared for cyberattacks, legal threats and even poisonings of its reporters.

One thing she hadn’t anticipated: defunding by the U.S. government.

Meduza, which had received roughly 15 percent of its annual budget from programs funded by the U.S. government, has been thrust into a financial crisis after the Trump administration abruptly stopped all foreign assistance from the United States Agency for International Development and other federal agencies this month.

“U.S.A.I.D. or the State Department, usually they fulfill their obligations. They follow their rules,” Ms. Timchenko said. “Now, it’s some kind of a broken world.”

Meduza is one of hundreds

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