Philanthropy’s blind spot is investing in our sector’s media

“Even the best-designed communication strategy will fail if there is no public platform from which to amplify campaigns.” (Oak Foundation, 2017 annual review) Late last year, Alliance magazine devoted a whole issue to the growing involvement of philanthropy and the media. Almost all contributors agreed that more funding of media—from investigative journalism to new technologies to combating disinformation—was a welcome development given the pressures on business models caused by technological change, digital disruption, and declining advertising revenues. Read More