Making enough money to grow and sustain good journalism is tough everywhere. But in places where governments and their proxies come after you for what you publish, where most foreign grant funding is ...
Mary Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald is a media expert who has worked across journalism and philanthropy. As editor-in-chief and CEO of the global news outlet openDemocracy, she built an award-winning team of journalists and oversaw major growth in the organization’s global reach and impact. She established an investigative journalism unit and led ground-breaking campaigns to defend journalism and force transparency from governments and big tech. She has also worked at the global organization Avaaz, where she organized campaigns to defend human rights and expose corruption, and as a senior editor of Prospect magazine in London. She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New York Review of Books, the Boston Globe, Al Jazeera, and others.
She currently sits on the Avaaz board of directors and on the Prospect editorial board. She has also served as a trustee for the human rights charity Reprieve, and on the editorial code committee of Impress, the U.K. press regulator.
Eventi IJF 2025
Investigating the truth: preparing for a toxic future as a donor and journalist
Investigative journalism has always faced a resource crisis. The reporting, particularly cross-border collaborations on complex issues, is expensive, unpredictable, and often dangerous, and requires s...
Corruption of history remains as much a weapon in the authoritarian playbook as it was before our current age of information abundance. There are no guarantees that once content is on the internet it ...
For journalism, financial independence is editorial independence. Whether it’s rich proprietors or philanthropists or any special interest group, newsrooms that are overly reliant on one funding sou...
Covid-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have brought increased urgency to discussions on how to protect against the worst outcomes of dis and misinformation. Whether it’s a report on Kremlin-ba...
The Journalism Funders Forum (JFF) is an open community of funders working together to ensure more and more impactful funding of journalism in Europe. We, as funders ourselves, realise funders can hav...
Nei paesi ricchi, i media locali lottano per sopravvivere. Le persone che producono e consumano le notizie appartengono sempre più alle élite che vivono nelle grandi città. Perché sta succedendo q...
L'industria dell'informazione è un disastro per la democrazia e la civiltà (come al solito)
Nel momento in cui le libertà basilari - tra cui la libertà di espressione - sono sotto attacco nelle democrazie di tutto il mondo, e con il cambiamento climatico che sta accelerando, mantenere nell...
"Partnership" è diventata la parola d'ordine nel mondo dei media. Ma quando le partnership funzionano, e quando falliscono? E come possiamo rendere le collaborazioni il vero futuro del giornalismo? ...
Il controllo dei media, il controllo delle testate giornalistiche da parte di magnati e dei loro compari governativi è già esistito. Nell'era digitale tuttavia assume nuove forme. Questo panel discu...
Viviamo in un'epoca in cui la fiducia è in declino: fiducia nei politici, fiducia nelle istituzioni, fiducia nei media, fiducia negli esperti. Stiamo affogando nelle opinioni mentre molti di noi stan...
Dalla Brexit alle imminenti elezioni europee, il denaro proveniente da fonti sconosciute sta influenzando sempre più la politica del continente, aumentando l'ascesa del populismo in tutto il continen...
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