The media landscape today is a very different one from the one in which the media development field was born. The skills and information gap between Global North and Global South is much narrower. Aut...
Nishant Lalwani
Nishant Lalwani is CEO of the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM). He co-founded the Fund and has built a multilateral coalition of thirty donors and partners that have aligned around the mission of sustaining independent journalism. Under his leadership, IFPIM became the first media-focused organisation anywhere in the world to be awarded International Organisation status. At IFPIM he has hired a highly diverse, global team, with staff in Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Nishant has more than twenty years of experience in international development, information ecosystems and impact investing. Prior to joining the International Fund, he was Vice President of Global Programmes at Luminate, where he created the Independent Media portfolio and led a portfolio of for-profit and non-profit deals. In 2013, Nishant helped launch the non-profit Global Innovation Fund (GIF). As COO, he led GIF’s investment process and venture support team, making investments and grants across the world. Nishant was on the founding team of Monitor Inclusive Markets (MIM) in India, which sought to scale up social enterprises addressing economic inequality. Early in his career he worked at the UN Development Programme in Zambia and also at Marakon Associates, a strategy consulting firm in London.
Nishant has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He also has a Master's in Aeronautical Engineering and a B.A. in General Engineering from Cambridge University.
The focus of this session will be to explore the progress of the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM), a bold initiative that seeks to distribute a new raft of resources at scale and s...
Foundation funding confidential: why the foundations do it, how they do it, and what “success” looks like
For most editors and newsrooms, the thought of asking for money to support editorial priorities is a highly daunting prospect. How do you match foundation support and real editorial priorities? Once y...
How do some of the world’s most prominent foundations focused on supporting media and journalism make their decisions on who or what to fund? What do they really look for? Which ideas energise them ...
How we can fight the political undermining of the media and promote freedom of expression
Globally, media is in crisis: in addition to public mistrust and eroding revenue models, we are witnessing overt threats and attacks against media, often by government actors or vested interests. Th...
The panel will focus on media ownership, investigating the relationship between quality journalism and independent foundations. The role of foundations regarding quality journalism will be discusse...
Local news in the US and Europe is in crisis. Research in the US, UK, the Netherlands and elsewhere has revealed widespread 'news deserts' or 'dark spots', where citizens have little or no access to l...
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