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More than 4.3 million unique users visited Malaysiakini on election night on 5 May. Of these, three million accessed the live report page on its website and another 1.3 million accessed it through the mobile version. A further 1.3 million users visited Malaysiakini’s undi.info, which provided information on seats and candidates, that night. At the [...]

Over the last six decades, the development of radio in Nepal has played a key role in strengthening democracy and transforming society at the local level. As the government has acknowledged radio’s importance and made it easier to acquire licences, the number of stations in the country has increased dramatically. As an article in online [...]

On 31 January 2013, Media Development Loan Fund announced that it had changed its name to Media Development Investment Fund. The rebranding reflects the fund’s continued growth, a new structure and its introduction of new forms of financing and business support. “As Media Development Loan Fund, we’ve thrived for 17 years providing financing and business [...]

As news media in the US and Europe come under increasing pressure, Financial Advisor looked at how MDIF (formerly MDLF) successfully combines social impact and financial returns by investing in independent news businesses in countries with a history of media oppression. Thomas Kostigen, a columnist for Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch and a best-selling author, noted [...]

The Media Forum in Jakarta closed after two days of insightful, practical and sometimes passionate discussion of the impact of digitalisation on independent news media. The final day of the Media Forum – co-hosted by Indonesian radio news agency KBR68H – kicked off with a discussion of the main trends in digital media in Asia. [...]