![]() ![]() ![]() (It also aims to feed into the longer-term IFPIM initiative mentioned above.) To contribute data, to collaborate or to register interest in receiving support, email INERC.Ģ. The newly-announced Independent News Emergency Relief Coordination (INERC) brings together an interdisciplinary group of funders, researchers, experts, journalists and advocates who will use data on independent news media across the world to identify areas of greatest need, to better target emergency relief resources. Please let us know of others – local, national, regional, international, data standards or guides – you think the JFF community should know about.ġ. Here are also 5 data initiatives that you can either contribute to, make use of or share more widely. These webinars and previous editions of this newsletter have shown that it’s a vital time to gather data on media and on funding initiatives. Our second was a funder-only webinar looking at the two major emergency funds supporting journalism and news media through COVID-19 – Google’s Journalism Emergency Relief Fund and Facebook’s European Journalism COVID-19 Support Fund (we’ll release a summary of this soon). First, JFF and the US-based Media Impact Funders co-hosted a discussion (summary here) exploring what philanthropic and media support organisations are doing to sustain critical public interest information needs around the world in response to COVID-19. Our recent webinars have looked at a range of media philanthropy responses to the coronavirus. If you haven’t read it yet, the study is absolutely worth your time. Īnd, as many JFF community members will know, and may have been part of the year-long consultations for, the feasibility study for the International Fund for Public Interest Media, or IFPIM, is out, and presents a compelling overview of the challenges facing public interest journalism worldwide. This paper arguing the same for the UK was one of many expert submissions last week to the UK’s House of Lords inquiry into the Future of Journalism. German donors have been at the forefront of advocating for journalism to be recognised officially as being of public benefit or gemeinnützig. Here’s the expert view of Yale Law School’s Chinmayi Arun.) (It has also announced the first 20 members of its new independent Oversight Board, a who’s who of international digital rights, legal, technology and journalism experts – there’s much debate over whether it is a fig-leaf or a body with teeth. World Press Freedom Day was marked last week by a series of online events highlighting the extraordinary work journalists and news organisations continue to do in the face of the pandemic, amid the continued and intensified challenges to press freedom.įacebook announced further emergency funds for newsrooms in Asia, Latin America and MENA – worth sharing with grantees and networks. ![]()
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