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Research and reports on effective media development funding and donor support to journalism.
This resource page is a work in progress. Please get in touch to let us know what is missing using this form.
Many of the resources featured in this section were collated from a reading list research on Foundation Funded Journalism produced by Humanitarian Journalism.
After resources that have a general geographic focus, the resources are organised by region and then in order of publication.

Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field (2019)

Democracy Fund/Media Impact Funders - SARAH ARMOUR-JONES AND JESSICA CLARK

This comprehensive report provides an extensive overview of the state of global media philanthropy. It includes discussion of data from the Media Data Map, results from a survey of leading organizations engaged in funding media-related projects, analyses of existing literature and reports, and insights offered by experts across a range of media funding issues. It concludes that, ‘power dynamics are skewed in favour of American funders’, ‘foundations can have an outsized influence on a country’s media system’ and ‘funders need to see the bigger picture’. (Humanitarian Journalism)

​Defending Independent Media: A Comprehensive Analysis of Aid Flows (2018)​

Centre for International Media Assistance - MARY MYERS & LINET ANGAYA JUMA

Defending Independent Media: A Comprehensive Analysis of Aid Flows
Center for International Media Assistance
KEY FINDINGS
When donors provide assistance to the media sector, they frequently back projects that aim to strengthen the media’s contribution to good governance in some way or another. This kind of funding is consistent with recent declarations made by the international community on the importance of protecting independent media for the sake of democracy and development. Yet, in the bigger picture, donors still only commit a tiny fraction to this sector and appear to be responding slowly, if at all, to the unique challenges of press freedom in the digital age.
    Media assistance represented on average just .3 percent of total official development aid (ODA) between 2010 and 2015.
    Donor flows to media are small, but are holding steady.
    China is an increasingly active player in terms of global media aid flows, although its interventions are largely focused on developing infrastructure and take the form of loans rather than development grants.

Development Agenda: Considering the Dark Side of the Media (2015)

DW Akademie - JAN LUBLINSKI, SACHA MEUTER & MARK NELSON

This report describes different phenomena of what the authors from DW Akademie, Fondation Hirondelle, and CIMA call the dark side of the media, and it looks at how the dark side interacts in a dynamic way with other features of the governance environment. It analyses societal dynamics and points out implications for media development.

​Measuring the Audience: Why It Matters to Independent News Media and How It Can Contribute to Media Development (2014)​

Measuring the Audience: Why It Matters to Independent News Media and How It Can Contribute to Media Development
Center for International Media Assistance
This CIMA report examines the benefits and challenges of measuring audiences for news media and media development practitioners.
Audience measurements, with their resulting influence on content and commercialization, are essential components of financially viable media and media markets. They help create marketplaces where diverse media can compete in viable niches, offer audience insights and thus increase the likelihood that media organizations will produce relevant content, and play an essential role in reducing corruption by exposing it. From a media development perspective, audience measurements reveal whether people are engaging with the content that news media produce. Although it has become essential for media organizations to have core strengths in understanding their audiences, building capacity for measuring audiences is seldom included in media development initiatives.
​Download the full report here.​

​Support to media where media freedoms and rights are constrained: WHAT WORKS AND WHY? (2012)​

BBC Media Action

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/pdf/globalsynth.pdf

​Evaluating media interventions in conflict countries - toward developing common principles and a community of practice (2010)​

United States Institute of Peace - AMELIA ARSENAULT, SHELDON HIMEFARB & SUSAN ABBOTT

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Penn - sylvania, Fondation Hirondelle, Internews Network, the United States Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding at the United States Institute of Peace commissioned this report following a five-day multistakeholder meeting of donors, implementers, and academics on how to better evaluate media’s impact in ameliorating conflict, at the Caux Conference Center in Switzerland. The report both reviews the state of the art in evaluating media interventions in conflict and outlines the Caux Guiding Principles (hereinafter, Caux Principles) for improving the evaluation process. It stresses effective evaluation as a critical step forward for using the media in conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

EUROPE

Journalism Funders Forum confidential (2019-2020)

Journalism Funders Forum

Blueprints for better collaboration between journalists and donors (2018)

European Journalism Centre - ADAM THOMAS
Blueprints for better collaboration between journalists and donors
Medium

Philanthropic journalism funding in the UK, Germany and France (2017)

Journalism Funders Forum - EUROPEAN JOURNALISM CENTRE

These three separate reports each provide a descriptive overview of the landscape of Philanthropic journalism funding in three European countries. They include a map of the key funders, examples of current funding and recommendations for future funding.

Philanthropy and the Media (2017)

ALLIANCE MAGAZINE

December 2017 - Alliance magazine
Alliance magazine
The December 2017 edition of Alliance Magazine included a special feature on philanthropy and the media. This included articles from journalists working at publications including Spiegel, The Guardian and the BBC, as well as representatives from a range of foundations. (Humanitarian Journalism)

NORTH AMERICA

Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Journalism: Trends in National Grantmaking (2018)

Media Impact Funders - KATIE DONNELLY AND JESSICA CLARK

Supporting Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In Journalism - Democracy Fund
Democracy Fund
The aim of this report is to map philanthropic interventions that support diversity, equity, and inclusion in journalism from 2009 – 2015. It draws on data from Media Impact Funders.

Funding the News: U.S. Foundations and Non-profit Media (2018)

Shorenstein Center - MATTHEW NISBET, JOHN WIHBEY, SILJE KRISTIANSEN & ALESZU BAJAK

Funding the News: Foundations and Nonprofit Media | Shorenstein Center
Shorenstein Center
This research offers an extensive analysis of the state of foundation funding for non-profit media in the US, based on an analysis of 32,422 journalism and media-related grants totalling $1.8 billion distributed by 6,568 foundations between 2010 and 2015. It finds, for example, that public media received approximately $796 million or about 44% of the $1.8 billion in grant money, and twenty-five public media stations and content producers accounted for 70% of all funding. (Humanitarian Journalism)

​Measuring Media Impact - Overview of the Field (2014)​

The Lear Centre - Media Impact Project - PHILIP M. NAPOLI

The goal of this report is to provide a comprehensive overview and assessment of the approaches being employed in this formative period of assessing media impact, with a focus on what is termed here a social value perspective. Social value in this context refers to analytical approaches that extend beyond financial measures of success to take into account criteria such as improving the well-being of individuals and communities across a wide range of dimensions that are central goals of most public interest media initiatives. This report seeks to identify relevant analytical approaches, methodologies, and metrics for assessing media impact in an effort to develop a baseline inventory of analytical tools, methods, and metrics that can inform further work in this area; and to identify approaches that appear particularly promising.
​Download the full PDF here.​

Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development (2009)

The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) - ANNE NELSON

This report discusses the implications of the entry of ‘new foundations from the new media technology sector’ into the field of media development. It illustrates how these foundations are changing the nature of media assistance. One of the recommendations is for U.S. foundations to, ‘try harder to think beyond their cultural context’ (Humanitarian Journalism)

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Contents
Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field (2019)
Defending Independent Media: A Comprehensive Analysis of Aid Flows (2018)
Development Agenda: Considering the Dark Side of the Media (2015)
Measuring the Audience: Why It Matters to Independent News Media and How It Can Contribute to Media Development (2014)
Support to media where media freedoms and rights are constrained: WHAT WORKS AND WHY? (2012)
Evaluating media interventions in conflict countries - toward developing common principles and a community of practice (2010)
EUROPE
Journalism Funders Forum confidential (2019-2020)
Blueprints for better collaboration between journalists and donors (2018)
Philanthropic journalism funding in the UK, Germany and France (2017)
Philanthropy and the Media (2017)
NORTH AMERICA
Supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Journalism: Trends in National Grantmaking (2018)
Funding the News: U.S. Foundations and Non-profit Media (2018)
Measuring Media Impact - Overview of the Field (2014)
Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development (2009)
WHAT IS MISSING?