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MDIF launches new loan fund to support media in emerging markets
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 In a ground-breaking partnership, MDIF and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) have launched a new blended-value loan fund for independent news media companies in select emerging and frontier markets. The fund provides investors with 55% first-loss protection. Read more.
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Media Forum 2016: Sharing insights and solutions
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 In November, we brought more than 130 clients, funders, partners and staff together in Prague for the Media Forum 2016. Over two days of panels, keynotes and workshops, media leaders shared insights and solutions to some of the critical business and editorial challenges they face worldwide. Read more.
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MDIF clients provide news to more than 60 million people
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 Last year, MDIF clients provided news to 60.9 million people in countries where access to independent media is under threat. The Impact Dashboard 2016 found that after five years client businesses grew their sales by 113%, and that nearly all exposed corruption and held their leaders to account. Read more.
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Russia declares MDIF 'undesirable'
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 In August, the Russian Ministry of Justice listed MDIF as 'undesirable', effectively prohibiting us from operating in the country. While rejecting the claim that MDIF is a threat to the constitution, we had anticipated the move and already stopped working there. The move was another blow to Russian civil society. Read our statement.
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Puntland radio station suspended after interviewing opposition leader
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 Armed soldiers closed Radio Daljir, the leading news station in the Puntland region of Somalia, for 12 days after broadcasting an interview with an opposition leader. A Minister told a Daljir journalist that the government "will shoot to kill any Radio Daljir reporter that interviews an opposition figure". Read more.
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Malaysiakini under attack
Malaysiakini editor-in-chief Steven Gan has been charged with a cyber crime after KiniTV posted a video of a press conference in which a politician called on the Attorney General to resign. If convicted, he faces up to one year in jail. Malaysiakini is seeking to strike down the charge in the constitutional court. Read more here.
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Clients in India and Peru win major awards
The International Women's Media Foundation named Mabel Caceres, founder and editor-in-chief of magazine El Buho, as a winner of its Courage in Journalism Awards 2016.
Meanwhile, Scroll.in freelance journalist Malini Subramaniam won the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, after facing threats of physical violence and attacks on her property for reporting on the plight of the indigenous people of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Watch CPJ's short video about her work. Scroll.in journalists also won two of the four Shriram Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism.
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Sign up for Mohamed Nanabhay's newsletter, Frontline to Bottomline
Want to know what's happening at the intersection of newsrooms and boardrooms, media and tech? Find out what's grabbed our Deputy CEO's attention in his occasional newsletter. http://www.mdif.org/subscribe
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Impact Dashboard Interactive
Navigate through our interactive Impact Dashboard 2016 to see the impact our work has on client businesses and the impact they have on their societies.
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