Category: MDIF update

Center for International Media Assistance Interviews Harlan Mandel

29 January 2013

An interview with MDIF Chief Executive Officer Harlan Mandel, part of the Matching the Market and the Model: The Business …

Media Forum 2010 – Interview with Jeremy Wagstaff

29 January 2013

Jeremy Wagstaff, award-winning writer, columnist and commentator on technology, social media and journalism, explains how curating information is creating new …

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 …

Investing in voices: 15 years of supporting independent media (short)

29 January 2013

MDIF was founded in 1995 as Media Development Loan Fund by journalists Sasa Vucinic and Stuart Auerbach. Take a whirlwind …

Investing in voices: 15 years of supporting independent media

25 January 2013

MDIF was founded in 1995 as Media Development Loan Fund by journalists Sasa Vucinic and Stuart Auerbach. In a special …

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 …