By Tessa Piper, Program Director for Southeast Asia. In addition to the financial investments that make up the core of MDIF’s work, over the past six years we have been…
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Media capture III: Providing a solution to ownership capture
By Peter Whitehead, Director of Communications. In the first article in this three-part series on media capture, we looked at the first two steps taken by governments seeking…
Blended capital is key for independent media in Europe
By Patrice Schneider, Chief Strategy Officer. On September 15, 2021 in her State of the Union Address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the Commission would…
MDIF Ventures invests in startups The Morning Context and Datasketch
MDIF Ventures, Media Development Investment Fund’s $1 million fund investing in young media companies with positive social impact serving audiences in countries where access to free and independent news and…
The need for constant evolution
By Magdalena Skrzypek, Impact and Communications Manager. For a decade, the media industry has been undergoing one of the most intensive periods of disruption in its history, with rapid technological…
SLAPPs and legal harassment: A scourge that must be stopped
By Snezana Green, Senior Legal Counsel. Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a vocal Nazi critic, German journalist Carl von Ossietsky, in 1935 was a warning sign of what four…
MDIF Ventures makes first investments in Nigeria’s Dataphyte and Mozambique’s Zitamar News
MDIF Ventures, Media Development Investment Fund’s $1 million fund investing in young media companies with positive social impact serving audiences in countries where access to free and independent news and…
MDIF invests in Pluralis to make impact investments in European news media
MDIF today announced that it has invested in Pluralis B.V., an impact investment vehicle for news companies that provide independent, quality reporting in countries in Europe where a plural media…
SAMIP expands media innovation support to three more Southern African countries
The South Africa Media Innovation Program (SAMIP) has welcomed three new regional media ventures to be part of its pioneering independent media development program. The new cohort includes media organisations…