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Investing in Facts: How the Business Community Can Support a Healthy Infosphere
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) (2023), 33 pp.
"This report builds off research conducted in Czechia, Romania, and Serbia by an international team of media experts. The research aimed to identify inspiring and impactful ways that the private sector in these countries is engaging in efforts to counter disinformation and bolster independent journa
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Charitable Giving in the Media: Research Highlights
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2021), 15 pp.
Philanthropy-Funded Journalism: Implications for Media Independence and Editorial Credibility in South Africa
In: Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), pp. 193-216
"Over the past decade, philanthropic organisations have poured millions of dollars into different specialised forms of journalism in Africa. While these new specialised forms of journalism are aimed at addressing existing gaps in news reporting on the continent, there has been growing concern over t
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Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 14 (2019), pp. 2034-2052
"Private foundations are an important source of funding for many news outlets. It has even been suggested that they may offer a partial solution to journalism’s economic crisis. Yet we do not know how foundation funding shapes journalistic practice. In this article, we show that foundation funding
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The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism
Media and Communication, volume 7, issue 4 (2019), pp. 45-55
"Many journalism stakeholders have begun looking to philanthropic foundations to help newsrooms find economic sustainability. The rapidly expanding role of foundations as a revenue source for news publishers raises an important question: How do foundations exercise their influence over the newsrooms
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Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field
Deep Insights
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2019), 50 pp.
"Both funding and making media are now dangerous in new ways: Foundations, publishers, editors and journalists across the world are facing not just familiar forms of repression and censorship, but new threats from breaches to digital privacy and a notably uncivil online culture. Funders need to work
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Foundation-Funded Journalism, Philanthrocapitalism and Tainted Donors
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 5 (2019), pp. 675-695
"Not-for-profit news organisations are increasingly funded by private foundations, supported by wealthy entrepreneurs. This raises a range of ethical dilemmas for journalists, which are particularly serious when their donors are alleged to have been involved in unethical or illegal activities. Altho
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Foundation-Funded Journalism: The State of Research. Reading List
Humanitarian-journalism.net (2019), 6 pp.
"Research into foundation-funded journalism is relatively scarce and disconnected. There is, for example, no single edited volume on this topic. This matters because while philanthropists and foundations often want to support journalism, it is not always clear how they should do this. Similarly, jou
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Foundation Support for International Non-Profit News: Mapping the Funding Landscape
Humanitarian-journalism.net; University of East Anglia (2018), 11 pp.
"There are three main reasons for the limited amount of foundation support for international journalism: a) It rarely aligns directly with the strategic priorities of a foundation (and so has to compete either with all other forms of journalism, or with numerous other ways of achieving the specific
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Can Foundations Solve the Journalism Crisis?
Journalism, volume 19, issue 8 (2017), pp. 1059-1077
"In the context of the ongoing financial crisis in U.S. professional journalism, philanthropic foundation-supported nonprofits are increasingly proposed as a solution to the under-provision of civic-oriented news production. Drawing on an analysis of the social composition of boards of directors and
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Donor Power and the News: The Influence of Foundation Funding on International Public Service Journalism
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 22, issue 2 (2017), pp. 163-184
"How does donor funding affect the independence, role perceptions, and ideology of the journalism it supports? We begin to answer this increasingly important but underresearched question with a year-long case study of the humanitarian news organisation IRIN as it transitioned from being funded by th
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Same Beds, Different Dreams? Charitable Foundations and Newsroom Independence in the Global South
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 32 pp.
"The growing trend of non-profit journalism has received much attention of late, but this report takes a unique look at how non-profit funding is affecting journalism in the Global South. Amidst the collapse of traditional business models for news organizations, funding from philanthropic foundation
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Philanthropic Journalism Funding in Germany
Maastricht: European Journalism Centre; Journalism Funders Forum (2017), 34 pp.
"As this study shows, many of the more than 21,000 German foundations contribute a wealth of ideas, and substantial funding, to a wide variety of journalistic projects and grants. But only around 120 foundations profess express support of journalism in their statutes. Unfortunately, the total moneta
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Foundation Maps for Media Funding: Introducing a New Tool for Unlocking the Power of Media Grants Data
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders; Foundation Center (2016), 15 pp.
"Foundation Maps for Media Funding is a data mapping platform that brings the diverse and expansive field of media and philanthropy to light, allowing users to research and explore media and technology funding around the world. The tool captures activities related to media content and platforms; tel
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"Media funders are still looking at questions of media assessment through many different lenses. The survey results indicated that the two biggest challenges facing this field are lack of consensus about what constitutes “impact” (33%) and lack of clarity about methods/measures within the media
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Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.
"This work is an update of the October 2009 CIMA report, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development by the same author. The field of private sector funding of independent media abroad has continued to undergo a massive upheaval over the past two years. Both the 2008 r
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