From the Washington Free Beacon: A veteran producer at CNN now serves as a registered foreign agent for the Qatar Foundation working to “elevate and promote” the regime-led nonprofit “within U.S. media,” federal disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
Monika Plocienniczak joined CNN as an associate producer in 2010, shortly after she graduated with a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She left the network five years later to work in the public relations industry, eventually joining the New York-based firm RF Binder as a managing director in December 2023.
It was then that Plocienniczak registered as a foreign agent representing the Qatar Foundation. In her federal disclosure, which is active through October 2026, Plocienniczak says she provides “work related to media outreach and engagement to elevate and promote the public profile of Qatar Foundation within U.S. media around its three core mission areas: education, research, and community development.”
The Qatar Foundation has paid RF Binder at least $460,000 since Plocienniczak registered as its agent, according to the firm’s semi-annual statements. The most recent of those disclosures covers a six-month period ending on April 30, meaning Qatar has likely paid the firm more in the second half of 2025.
RF Binder has also filed scores of disclosures—including as recently as September—that show emails the firm sent U.S. media outlets on behalf of the Qatar Foundation. They present Qatari professors, doctors, and “businessmen” as “experts” who are available to speak on topics like “propaganda on social media in the Gulf region,” the “startup ecosystem in Doha,” “Donald Trump’s election win,” and “the Israel-Hamas conflict, Israel-Hezbollah conflict, and regional repercussions.”
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— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) December 9, 2025
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