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The Big Bang Theory of MDIF

22 January 2013

Buried in the depth of every organization’s institutional memory, a founding legend — a treasured story explaining the organization’s “big …

An important drop in an enormous ocean

22 January 2013

It was a freezing morning in Prague on that 27 January 1996, when I waited for a phone call from …

SME, Slovakia: MDLF’s first loan

22 January 2013

On the first workday in January 1993 in the new Slovak Republic, the board of the state-owned company Smena removed …

Sasa Vucinic on TED

20 January 2013

Why a free press is the best investment. MDIF Co-founder and former Managing Director Sasa Vucinic talks to the TED …

MDIF profiled in Financial Advisor magazine

9 January 2013

As news media in the US and Europe come under increasing pressure, Financial Advisor looked at how MDIF (formerly MDLF) …

Timeline: How Nepalese radio used Facebook to build online audience

1 January 2013

In less than three years, Ujyaalo 90 Network went from having no website and little social media presence to being …

Media Forum draws to a close

5 December 2012

The Media Forum in Jakarta closed after two days of insightful, practical and sometimes passionate discussion of the impact of …

News businesses gather in Jakarta for Media Forum 2012

1 December 2012

More than 100 of our clients, investors and staff met in Jakarta, Indonesia, today at the opening of the Media …

Ukrainian news executive detained as officials pressure independent media

2 November 2012

In the week running up to the 28 October Ukrainian parliamentary elections, MV-Holding, publisher of flagship newspaper Melitopolskije Vedomosti, was …