Our Impact

MDIF provides financing and technical assistance to support the growth of sustainable independent news businesses. Measuring impact is critical to our work.

Each year we analyse changes in client reach, sales and other indicators of business performance to better understand how working with MDIF helps clients develop news business that are viable over the long term. Read the full Media Development Impact Dashboard 2012.

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* from 1996 to December 31, 2012

Reach and sales data is from 2011

Mail & Guardian, South Africa

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