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The Internet Policy Observatory’s Laura Schwartz-Henderson highlights new research showing discrepancies between funder goals and grassroots needs and calls for greater collaboration and listening on the part of funders. Note: Schwartz-Henderson contributed editorial and content suggestions for this report as a consultant to Media Impact Funders.

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Funding media freedom and digital rights: Taking a demand-driven approach to facilitate coordination and collaboration

Over the past decade, the challenges facing media funders have expanded at an alarming pace. It has now become hackneyed to note the vast changes wrought by the rapid global proliferation of the internet and communication technologies: from the crisis of disinformation and misinformation to decreased readership of traditional news providers to the Orwellian-seeming surveillance […]

March 25, 2019
  • Laura Schwartz-Henderson