Journalism Funders Forum

GFMD IMPACT analysis of related projects and initiatives - The Journalism Funders Forum (JFF) an initiative of the European Journalism Centre (EJC). (Last updated by Tom Law - March 1, 2021)

Journalism Funders Forum

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Journalism Funders Forum

• Website: https://journalismfundersforum.com/
• Newsletter: https://journalismfundersforum.com/newsletter

Project design

Goals & aims

The Journalism Funders Forum is an open community of European foundations and journalists working together to ensure more effective and impactful funding of journalism in Europe. We have three goals:

• Connect stakeholders from philanthropy and journalism in Europe.
• Ensure more effective and impactful funding of journalism in Europe.
• Increase the amount of philanthropic organisations funding journalism in Europe.

Governance structure

The Journalism Funders Forum is organised by the European Journalism Centre (EJC).

Partners

• Addessium Foundation
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Democracy and Media Foundation
• Open Society Foundations
• News Integrity Initiative
• Schöpflin Foundation

Audience

Philanthropic organisations in Europe that support or are considering supporting journalism.

Geographic focus

Europe

Languages

English (with the occasional newsletter in French)

Thematic focus

• Philanthropy and journalism in Europe.

Main activities

• Events, workshops, webinars, research, reports and a newsletter which goes into depth about a different topic in each edition. The newsletter was sent around once a month in 2020. The JFF website links to blogs and articles published on EJC's medium profile as well as to selected external resources.
• A mentoring programme, which "places staff from philanthropic foundations that are new to (or have an interest in) the media funding space in meaningful and impactful mentoring relationships with seasoned peers. The aim is to shape the media funding sector by exerting a positive influence on the mentees’ careers and thereby improving the ecosystem by supporting transparency about the industry’s inner workings."

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