As the challenges facing newsrooms multiply, how can philanthropy help independent media “keep the lights on” without creating dependence or causing collateral damage? As donor budgets tighten, how can funders ensure the media landscape is pluralistic and free from interference? Donors, journalists and media development specialists joined forces last week to wrestle with those questions […]

  Philanthropy alone can’t save the free press, but it can unlock and catalyse other forms of support that are critical to the sustainability of independent media, from taxpayer funding to impact investment. That was the message from experts at a recent roundtable discussion held at the IPI World Congress in September 2021 on the […]

On September 29, Al Jazeera’s Kabul correspondent, Ali Latifi, published an article with the arresting title ‘Death knell’, in which he describes the hardships Afghan journalists face since the Taliban takeover. “From the day the Taliban took over Kabul, the media has been facing a lot of pressure and violence from the Taliban side… Just […]

  What are the keys to defending independent public broadcasting in Europe? The director general of the Austrian public broadcaster ORF, Alexander Wrabetz, shared his thoughts at the IPI World Congress on September 17. In several EU member states — Hungary and Poland are the most prominent examples — nominal public-service broadcasters have long since […]