“Let's be flexible and not underestimate the external factors and constraints against viability. Political change, human resources, turnover within media…” Caroline Vuillemin, Fondation Hirondelle
“Partners, donors, investors. Don’t ask us about the viability of a project of two years, at the end of the project. Come back in five years, 10 years, 15 years after your investment, and come check what remains. It may be that the media closed, but maybe the journalist went to work elsewhere, or the citizens and the audiences got savvy for independent and quality information. And that is a lasting result.” Caroline Vuillemin, Fondation Hirondelle
“It’s harder to work remotely than it is in person. It’s harder to generate strong results when we’re working from afar than when we’re in person with organisations. The mode that we do this work in is also changed. So we work much more towards sprints rather than marathons, because people’s attention spans are not strong when we’re not there.”, Jason Lambert, Internews