Category: MDIF clients

Media Forum 2010 – Interview with Fred M’membe, Editor, The Post, Zambia

29 January 2013

Fred M’membe, editor of The Post in Zambia, was released from jail on 7 June 2010 after being held for …

Media Forum 2010 – Interview with Igor Pochynok, Editor-in-Chief, Express, Ukraine

29 January 2013

Igor Pochynok discusses the attacks and threats he and his newspaper have suffered because of their reporting, and explains the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

M&G wins six awards

3 September 2012

won six prizes at the Standard Bank Sikuvile Awards, South Africa’s leading prize recognising excellence in journalism. At an awards …

Helping independent media stay independent in a digital world

25 April 2012

In an op-ed for AlJazeera.com, MDIF Knowledge Bridge Editor and Digital Strategist Kevin Anderson explains why, with much of the …

Vijesti reporter attacked

8 March 2012

Olivera Lakic, an investigative reporter with Montenegro’s only independent daily Vijesti, was attacked when she opened the door of her …

Express’s future jeopardized by government threats

7 February 2012

After a long campaign of threats and other harassment, the Ukrainian government appears to have interfered in the judicial process …