years
media organizations
$830 000+
in grants
$330 000+
in capacity building
$1.24 million+
in investments
$2.25 million+
in external revenue unlocked
Case Studies
Centre for Innovation & Technology (CITE)
How CITE’s Zimbabwean election reporting gained the trust of local audiences
Quote This Woman+
How QW+ increase women’s voices in media and create a database of experts to increase the representation of women in media.
Igunundu
How Igunundu’s passion for creating indigenous language content is driving digital opportunities.
Volume
How Volume is perfecting low-cost, high-quality podcast production to tell stories of the pandemic and beyond.
Media Hack Collective
How Media Hack is showing the business case and civic importance of public-interest data projects.
Viewfinder
How Viewfinder is developing revenue streams to support hard-hitting accountability journalism.
OBJECTIVES
Digital native products
Developing new approaches for collecting news and information, reporting and distribution that embrace the possibilities of technology.
New revenue opportunities
Pioneering new sources of revenue to help media companies achieve sustainability while remaining financially independent.
Innovating in distribution
Supporting new models for distributing news that save costs, add value, or reach new audiences.
Supporting underserved languages
Attempting to engage and distribute content to communities in vernacular languages that are under-served.
Reaching rural communities
Testing innovative ways to reach and empower people outside of major urban areas, and those generally under-served by existing news media.
Transitioning to digital
Finding and implementing solutions, products or processes that assist legacy media to transform their businesses.
CURRENT Participants
FUNDERS
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