"Two years in the making, this report unfolds regional perspectives of new forms of funding, financing and investment for public interest media. It provides a multistakeholder reflection in four regions of the world on how public interest media can best be supported over the next decade. Through contextualised research, it offers insights into the funding landscape including opportunities, needs, challenges, gaps and recommendations. The question is not whether interventions are needed to tackle the economic crisis facing journalism, but how this support should be structured. The report sheds new light on what it will take to deliver sustainable and independent media that truly deliver journalism that is a public good." (Summary)
Introduction / Clare Cook, 6
Key terms, 8
Key findings, 11
Forms of journalism production are shifting in Asia. So must the financing / Ross Settles, 12
Pressure on the sustainability of public interest media in Africa / Chris Kabwato, 23
Long road to independence: Pains and gains of a maturing media field in the Middle East and North Africa / Hassan Abbas and Alexandre Goudineau, 34
Finding funds despite political and criminal threats in Latin America / Janine Warner and Laura Aguirre, 44
Methodology, 54
Conclusion, 58
Recommendations, 60