Noszemely es Amazon? Media Development Fund

[Katalin Fabian]

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Katalin Fábián
Lafayette College
Department of Government and Law
Kirby Hall 103
Easton, PA 18042-1780

Tel: (610) 330-5392
Fax: (610) 330-5397



Media Development Fund Helps Developing Countries Spread
        the News

  A recent article in the Industry Standard profiles the
  Media Development Loan Fund (http://www.mdlf.cz/), a
  New York City-based foundation that assists independent
  news organizations in developing democracies.

  With support from a number of large U.S. foundations,
  including the MacArthur Foundation
  (http://www.macfound.org/index.htm), the Charles Stewart
  Mott Foundation (http://www.mott.org/), and the Open
  Society Institute (http://www.soros.org/), MDLF provides
  low-interest loans to newspapers, magazines, radio and
  television broadcasters, and Internet-based media concerns
  in developing countries and trains them in the use of
  different technologies to ensure the free and sustainable
  distribution of their news.

  According to MDLF founder Sada Vucinic, the organization
  also works to train independent news organizations in the
  business of journalism.  "Only when a media company is
  capable of sustaining and developing its activities with
  its own revenues," says Vucinic, "can it be free of
  outside influences and truly independent."

  Since its creation four years ago, the Fund has loaned
  more than $12 million to organizations in approximately 30
  countries. And while only $2 million of that amount has
  been repaid, MDLF's impact on media in developing
  countries appears to be paying off. As Vucinic told the
  Standard, "We are committed to having our loans repaid,
  and we don't hesitate to be tough. But we are also
  committed to ensuring the success of our borrowers."

  Giussani, Bruno. "Media in Developing Countries Get Tech
  Support." Industry Standard 2/1/2001.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/02/01/media.activists.idg/index.html

  http://fdncenter.org/pnd/current/003989.html