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<H1>Supporting Media at a Time of Crisis: Donors Explore New Strategies</H1>
<H5>By Laura Schwartz-Henderson </H5>
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<DIV>Der neue Report von CIMA beschäftigt sich mit aktuellen Strategien der Geldgeber basierend auf Interviews mit Vertretern von privaten und öffentlichen Geldgebern: <A href="https://www.cima.ned.org/publication/supporting-media-at-a-time-of-crisis-donors-explore-new-strategies/">https://www.cima.ned.org/publication/supporting-media-at-a-time-of-crisis-donors-explore-new-strategies/</A></DIV>
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<H4>Table of Contents</H4>
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<LI class=active data-pos="614.5">Key Findings <I class=icon-right-open-mini></I></LI>
<LI data-pos="1190.5">Introduction <I class=icon-right-open-mini></I></LI>
<LI data-pos="4473.683349609375">Institutional Impediments to Media Assistance <I class=icon-right-open-mini></I></LI>
<LI data-pos="7664.18310546875">Case Study: The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation <I class=icon-right-open-mini></I></LI>
<LI data-pos="8337.68310546875">Will Private Media Development Donors Fracture or Unify the Field? <I class=icon-right-open-mini></I></LI>
<LI data-pos="11348.8837890625">Building Institutional Support for Media <I class=icon-right-open-mini></I></LI>
<LI data-pos="18780.8828125">Implications for International Cooperation on Media Development <I class=icon-right-open-mini></I></LI>
<LI data-pos="22974.849609375">Acknowledgments <I class=icon-right-open-mini></I></LI></UL>
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<P>Private foundations and official donors are beginning to recognize their role in a global effort to preserve independent, professional journalism. Amid a series of complex threats to quality news and information, the providers of international assistance are currently deliberating new collaborative efforts.</P>
<P>Shall they join forces to create a new global fund, something to buttress the ailing news industry as The Global Fund for Tuberculosis, Malaria and Aids has done for health systems? Shall they focus their support on knowledge, research, and learning amid all of the uncertainties created by fast-evolving digital communication technologies? Or shall they instead direct their support towards assembling the networks and coalitions that can fight for the fundamental reforms needed to enable professional journalism to thrive?</P></DIV>
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<P>This report, the last in a series that has explored entry points for strengthening international cooperation in the media sector, sheds some light on these questions. Based on 27 interviews with representatives of both private and official donor agencies, it examines the major obstacles and stumbling blocks that will have to be avoided if global support to the media sector is increased.</P>
<P>The institutional impediments to effective aid, the report finds, are frequently related to limited human capacity and expertise in media at the donor organizations and a misalignment of support and needs. The cross-donor collaborations currently being considered can help to address these shortcomings, though not without risks. The report offers some important points for donors to contemplate as they collaborate to support international media development.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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