Sameer Padania
Sameer works with clients, partners and peers in the UK, Europe and beyond to help transform and grow the public interest journalism ecosystem. He is in the final stages of completing a mid-career MSc in Communication Sciences at VUB.
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Media organisations, whether traditional broadcasters or new media platforms have shown innovation in how they deliver news and views of the world, pioneering different formats and remaking old ones. But what this report highlights is how all of us have to think about why it’s what we deliver that really matters – the content. It’s hard to pretend that what is happening in a country like Iraq does not directly affect us. It does. It affects our security, our global reputation and the relevance of international legal organisations like the UN. In the future, reflecting the world will be as much about recognising it as a central part of our raison d’etre as broadcasters and part of the national interest, rather than just quantifying how much of it we do each year
This report asks the hard questions about how to protect and empower those who attempt to expose injustices through video. It provides specific recommendations for immediate and future actions that can reduce danger for those risking their lives. This report is an important step to understanding how we can harness the power of video and technology to empower activists to protect and defend human rights. This is the age of transformative technology.
The paper is intended as a stepping stone, or a springboard, for those who know little about investigative journalism, but who would like to know more. It is not a defense, a mapping or a history of the field, either globally or regionally; nor is it a description of or guide to how to conduct investigations or an examination of investigative techniques. These are widely available in other areas and (to some extent) in other languages already.
Rooted in 17 in-depth expert interviews and wide-ranging desk research, this report sets out big-picture challenges and opportunities facing the investigative journalism field both in general, and in specific regions of the world. It provides donors with an overview of the main ways this often precarious field is financed in newsrooms and units large and small. Finally it provides high-level practical advice – from experienced donors and the investigative journalism field – to help new, prospective or curious donors to the field to find out how to get started, and what is important to do, and not to do.
An Introduction to Funding Media and Journalism, developed by Ariadne and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative and written by Sameer Padania, aims to help funders boost their understanding of the key issues, debates and approaches in funding journalism and media. We hope that this will help prepare funders focused on human rights, social justice or transparency and accountability to engage in the journalism and media field effectively and ethically, with a stronger shared understanding of why, when and how to do so.
Media organisations, whether traditional broadcasters or new media platforms have shown innovation in how they deliver news and views of the world, pioneering different formats and remaking old ones. But what this report highlights is how all of us have to think about why it’s what we deliver that really matters – the content. It’s hard to pretend that what is happening in a country like Iraq does not directly affect us. It does. It affects our security, our global reputation and the relevance of international legal organisations like the UN. In the future, reflecting the world will be as much about recognising it as a central part of our raison d’etre as broadcasters and part of the national interest, rather than just quantifying how much of it we do each year
This report asks the hard questions about how to protect and empower those who attempt to expose injustices through video. It provides specific recommendations for immediate and future actions that can reduce danger for those risking their lives. This report is an important step to understanding how we can harness the power of video and technology to empower activists to protect and defend human rights. This is the age of transformative technology.
The paper is intended as a stepping stone, or a springboard, for those who know little about investigative journalism, but who would like to know more. It is not a defense, a mapping or a history of the field, either globally or regionally; nor is it a description of or guide to how to conduct investigations or an examination of investigative techniques. These are widely available in other areas and (to some extent) in other languages already.
Rooted in 17 in-depth expert interviews and wide-ranging desk research, this report sets out big-picture challenges and opportunities facing the investigative journalism field both in general, and in specific regions of the world. It provides donors with an overview of the main ways this often precarious field is financed in newsrooms and units large and small. Finally it provides high-level practical advice – from experienced donors and the investigative journalism field – to help new, prospective or curious donors to the field to find out how to get started, and what is important to do, and not to do.
An Introduction to Funding Media and Journalism, developed by Ariadne and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative and written by Sameer Padania, aims to help funders boost their understanding of the key issues, debates and approaches in funding journalism and media. We hope that this will help prepare funders focused on human rights, social justice or transparency and accountability to engage in the journalism and media field effectively and ethically, with a stronger shared understanding of why, when and how to do so.