"[...] The biggest source of media development money has been USAID, followed by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF), and the US State Department. What the US government will do with this under President Donald Trump and a Republican budget-cutting Congress is uncertain, and this political shift is likely to reduce USG media development funding after the current fiscal year ends in September, 2017. This could slow down the heated growth of nonprofit organizations in the media development sector. USG and private donors interviewed for this report were reluctant to predict how long their donor interest in investigative journalism would last. But they said the popularity of investigative journalism projects is still on the upswing, and will continue well beyond 2017, attracting more private as well as public support for the sector. One challenge for funders is the measurement of impact for their grants. A growing body of scholarship, including Hamilton’s, advances models showing that every dollar of money spent on investigative journalism returns multiple dollars in public goods. The growth of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) in the past five years illustrates a trend towards international collaboration, resource sharing and advocacy. Media, communication and tech platforms in general are both part of the problem and part of the solution to such issues as cross-border corruption and xenophobia." (Overview, pages 4-6)