Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for funding, media organizations must:

• Be an established legalentity
• Operate in one of 50 focuscountries (link to list)
• Meet the InternationalFund’s definition of public interest media (link to The Issue page withdefinition)
• Have total annual costs ofat least $300,000 USD in the last fiscal year
• Have existed andcontinuously published for more than three years
• Not have distributeddividends to shareholders in the last three years
• Have a net income below 5% (average over 3 years) and a cash runway ofless than 12 months.
  
  

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