Support for the fund

I’m in favour of France providing financial support to the Fund and will also be happy to call on those other nations part of the Partnership on Information and Democracy to support the Fund.

Keeping with our view that the media plays a crucial role in the functioning of democracy ... we are also contributing to the International Fund for Public Interest Media to support the development of public interest media in resource-poor and fragile settings.

A free and independent media is the bedrock of democracy. And around the world, press freedom is under threat. We’re committing critical seed money to launch a new multilateral effort, an International Fund for Public Interest Media, to sustain independent media.

I am personally backing an International Fund for Public Interest Media designed to draw on international development and other philanthropic resources to support independent media, both here in Africa and more broadly as media organisations adjust from a dying business model to one that has yet to be born.