MDIF provides affordable debt and equity financing to independent media in a range of countries where access to free and independent news and information is under threat. For more than 25 years, we have invested capital and advisory services to help scores of media organisations build robust businesses, strong enough to hold governments to account, expose corruption and provide a platform for debate.

Maria Ressa acquitted of criminal tax charge
A Regional Trial Court in Manila, Philippines, today acquitted Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa and her news outlet Rappler on the final criminal tax charge brought against…