DescriptionThrough narrative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and inter-newsroom collaborations, Viewfinder seeks to make complex findings accessible to audiences across the spectrum of South African news media consumers. This is a tie-off grant to Viewfinder to enable them to continue and expand their investigations into police abuses and impunity.
DescriptionTo support the African Media Initiative, a consortium of private media companies in Africa that are working together to improve the quality of journalism on the continent, improve business practices, and access more flexible capital for investment in media.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide general operating support to amaBhungane, a non-profit organisation that conducts and develops investigative journalism to promote free, capable media and open, accountable, just democracy.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo fund Big Cabal Media with seed equity investment to support the scaling of their core operations, storytelling, and citizen engagement media platforms
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeProject Grant
DescriptionTo support The Big Debate, a townhall debate TV show produced by the Black Stripe Foundation that provides a unique platform for public engagement that helps to promote informed discussion and accountability.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide core operating support to Premium Times Centre for Investigation (PTCIJ) and their efforts at improving Nigeria's investigative journalism landscape, promoting press freedom in Nigeria, and for the expansion of Dubawa, their factchecking platform.
DescriptionTo support the Innovate Africa media challenge, formerly known as ANIC, an initiative that encourages digital experimentation in newsrooms across the continent.
Amount committed (US$)
For-profit figures not reported
Funding typeEquity
DescriptionTo provide a seed investment in HiviSasa.com, an online Kenyan newspaper that provides local, county level news tailored for the mobile web.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeGeneral Funding Grant
DescriptionTo support MMA, a non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.
DescriptionTo provide a project grant to PMI to, in collaboration with Buni Media, launch the first season of a news and political satire TV show in Kenya.
Funding typeGrant: Foreign Public Charity Equivalent
Funding purposeOne-Off Funding Grant
DescriptionTo provide support to Rhodes University to help fund the Highway Africa journalism conference, the largest annual gathering of African journalists in the world.
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