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Trump funding freeze halts decades of U.S. democracy work around the world
National Public Radio (NPR), February 18 (2025)
"The Trump administration has stopped funding practically all U.S. government work supporting democracy, human rights and press freedom around the globe. President Trump issued an executive order last month halting congressionally appropriated foreign assistance, pending a review of the programs fun
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The USAID Crisis and Funding the Future of Independent Media
Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), February 17 (2025)
"Independent nonprofit media around the globe suddenly find themselves at the center of a perfect storm of at least four new existential threats.
The sudden hold on USAID foreign assistance funding by the US Trump administration has frozen an estimated $268 million in agreed grants for independent
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Independent Evaluation of the Media Freedom Coalition
Paris: Aleph Strategies; Media Freedom Coalition (2025), 62 pp.
"The evaluation found that the MFC has made notable contributions to media freedom and journalist safety over the past five years. It has played a role in encouraging some Member States to strengthen their media freedom policies and legislation. The MFC has also influenced state actors through diplo
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Impacto de programas de apoyo de grandes plataformas digitales a medios de comunicación en América Latina: Los casos Google News Initiative y Meta for Media
Montevideo: Observacom (2025), 43 pp.
"1. Los apoyos, herramientas y recursos económicos analizados no son ni cercanamente suficientes para reducir los daños que su capacidad de control genera en los medios ni en la actividad periodística.
2. El impacto cuantitativo es relativamente menor; esto sucede tanto en lo económico como en
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"Our call on media and civil society – as well as other stakeholders such as independent information regulatory bodies and business entities, to act on: Information integrity -- Artificial Intelligence -- Media viability -- Safety -- Women and media -- Children, young people (teenagers) and margin
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Mapping of media assistance and journalism support programmes in the Asia, Pacific and Oceania region: With special focus on the top five recipient countries
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2025), 18 pp.
"The mapping shows that the funding opportunities for media development and journalism support in the Asia region are concentrated in six countries of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and four countries of Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia and the
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Reimagining Funding for Journalism: Key Takeaways from IJF 2025
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), May 6 (2025)
"At the International Journalism Festival (IJF) in Perugia this year, journalism funding and sustainability took centre stage. International funders, media leaders, and innovators grappled with the urgent question of how to keep independent journalism not just alive—but thriving—in an era of shr
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We just lost our best chance in a generation to expand media freedom
Center for News, Technology & Innovation, February 27 (2025)
"A US retreat from international media assistance will set back the global movement for media freedom by years. The gap left behind will not be easy to fill. The movement, however, can be sustained by fortifying its roots. In time, the movement could emerge stronger." (Introduction)
In Eastern Europe, freeze on US aid leaves door open to Russian disinformation
Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists, February 25 (2025)
"The Trump administration’s freeze on U.S. foreign aid will lead to a surge in Russian disinformation across Eastern Europe, experts warn, as independent media outlets across the region will be forced to shutter, leaving a vacuum of credible information in their wake. “Russian disinfo will have
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USA: Trump's foreign aid freeze throws journalism around the world into chaos
Reporters Without Borders, February 6 (2025)
"President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including over $268 million allocated by Congress to support independent media and the free flow of information. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces this decision, which has plunged NGOs, media outlets, an
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Navigating instability: A five-phase approach to supporting exiled media
Key Guides
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2025), 33 pp.
"In recent years, IMS has seen a steady increase in the number of its media partners forced to flee their home countries to avoid persecution and closure as the democratic space globally has shrunk. IMS expects this trend to continue, with “exiled media” becoming the main – and, in some cases,
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Urgent call for governments, multilateral institutions, and philanthropies to support independent media and journalism
Brussels: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2025), 3 pp.
"The recent U.S. government decision to suspend foreign assistance has abruptly halted key grants and programmes that have been essential in sustaining global development, cooperation, and supporting international peace and security and human rights efforts worldwide, putting in jeopardy the ability
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From threat to reality: Independent media endangered, security and democracy weakened, autocracy and disinformation thriving
International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) (2025), 18 pp.
"Rooted in research and consultation with independent media organisations in 30 middle- and low-income countries, this briefing argues that the weakening of democracy, security, and development is closely correlated with the near extinction of independent media. It demonstrates – with evidence
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Crisis in Journalism: The Impact of the US Government Funding Cuts on Global Media
Internews Europe (2025), 12 pp.
"In FY2024, the US Congress approved $271.5 million in foreign assistance through the US State Department and USAID in the category of “Independent Media and Free Flow of Information”. Of this, an estimated $150 million directly funded journalism and media support, with the remainder supporting
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Media development pathways: A case study of the Media Institute of Southern Africa
London: University of Westminster, Doctoral Thesis (2025), 222 pp.
"The purpose of this research project is to contribute to the academic and practitioner understanding of how donors impact the development of media systems in developing and transitioning countries. The study reflects on the evolution of donor strategies in media development over the past 30 years s
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Impact of U.S. Government Funding Suspension on Independent Media in Lebanon
Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation (2025), 9 pp.
"The January 23, 2025 suspension of U.S. government funding has placed Lebanon’s independent media outlets under significant strain. Although some organizations were unaffected, many face heightened financial uncertainty, reduced operational capacity, and the potential for layoffs. The Samir Kassi
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The Sustainability Imperative in Media Development: A Critical Analysis of a Self-Serving Myth
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiv, 396 pp.
"This book critically examines how the media assistance and broader "development" sectors have appropriated the catch-all concept of sustainability, originally rooted in economic and environmental fields, to suit their agendas. Analysing 289 project evaluations conducted globally between 1999 and 20
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"The last year has brought unprecedented challenges: dramatic funding cuts, acceleration of disinformation as digital platforms have scaled back fact-checking and content moderation, proliferation of AI, widespread undermining of humanitarian law, and shrinking civic space. The impact on communities
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Media Assistance: Mind the Gap! A critical review of common practices and strategies. Presentations
Dortmund: Erich-Brost-Institut; Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome) (2025), 202 slides
"This is a compilation of the presentations at the fome conference on "Media Assistance: Mind the Gap!" from September 30 – October 1, 2024, in Dortmund." (commbox)
