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.

Leading Guatemalan journalist José Ruben Zamora arrested
José Ruben Zamora, founder and President of investigative newspaper El Periódico and one of Guatemala’s leading independent journalists, was arrested at his home on the evening of 29…