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The GFMD promotes cooperation within the journalism support & media development sector in order to strengthen the quality of work conducted and to enhance the impact of .

It was a challenging year for the media development community, marked by adversity, resilience, and shared achievements....
23/12/2025

It was a challenging year for the media development community, marked by adversity, resilience, and shared achievements.

Below, we highlighted GFMDโ€™s impact in 2025 through numbers
https://gfmd.info/gfmds-impact-in-2025/

It was a challenging year for the media development community, marked by adversity, resilience, and shared achievements. Below, we highlighted GFMDโ€™s impact in 2025 through numbers.

26/11/2025
๐Ÿ“ข Earlier today, the newly elected GFMD Steering Committee convened at   in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for its first offici...
20/11/2025

๐Ÿ“ข Earlier today, the newly elected GFMD Steering Committee convened at in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for its first official meeting, marking the start of its 2025-2029 term.

During its first meeting, the Steering Committee elected a ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐„๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ž to lead the network for the 2025โ€“2029 term:

๐Ÿ”ท Chair: ุฑูˆุงู† ุงู„ุถุงู…ู† Rawan Damen, Director General, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism - ARIJ
๐Ÿ”ท Deputy Chair: Laxman Datt Pant, Executive Director, Media Action Nepal
๐Ÿ”ท Treasurer: Caroline Vuillemin, General Director, Fondation Hirondelle

Both GFMDโ€™s newly elected Chairperson, Rawan Damen, and outgoing Chairperson, Zoรฉ Titus, shared reflections on the achievements of the past term and their hopes for the coming years.

โžก๏ธ You can read their full statements here: https://gfmd.info/gfmd-executive-committee-2025-2029/

๐ŸŽ‰ Congratulations to all newly elected Steering Committee and Executive Committee members โ€” we are looking forward to working closely with them to build on our collective achievements and to advance the collaboration, solidarity, and shared mission that define GFMD!

GFMD convened its newly elected Steering Committee on Thursday, 20 November, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, marking the start of a new four-year term (2025โ€“2029) for the organisationโ€™s governing body.

๐Ÿ“ขOctober edition of MediaDev Insider is out! In this issue, we focus on   โ€“ capturing the regionโ€™s dynamic   and develop...
10/10/2025

๐Ÿ“ขOctober edition of MediaDev Insider is out!

In this issue, we focus on โ€“ capturing the regionโ€™s dynamic and development landscape through a series of high-level dialogues.

โžก๏ธ Read it here: https://mailchi.mp/gfmd.info/mediadev-insider-impact-oct-2025

Your guide on how to support journalism and media

๐ŸšจOnly a few days left to apply for the ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐„๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ-๐ˆ๐‰ ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ !Join us for ...
28/08/2025

๐ŸšจOnly a few days left to apply for the ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐„๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ-๐ˆ๐‰ ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ !

Join us for a free full-day intensive online training session delivered by investigative experts from Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) and Transcrime (Universitร  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and tailored for European mid-career journalists tackling complex, cross-border investigations.

๐Ÿ“… Date: Saturday, 20 September 2025
๐Ÿ•˜ Time: 09:15โ€“17:00 CEST
๐Ÿ“ Location: Online

๐Ÿ“Œ ๐€๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ž๐š๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž: 1 ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ 2025
๐Ÿ”— Apply now: https://form.jotform.com/251982172241354

โ„น๏ธ More info & eligibility: https://hub.next-ij.eu/news/open-call-september-2025

๐Ÿšจ ๐†๐…๐Œ๐ƒ ๐Œ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐„๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ 2025โ€“2029We are delighted to announce the newly elected members of the G...
17/07/2025

๐Ÿšจ ๐†๐…๐Œ๐ƒ ๐Œ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐„๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ 2025โ€“2029

We are delighted to announce the newly elected members of the GFMD Steering Committee, following the endorsement of the 2025 election results at the online General Assembly meeting on July 16, 2025.

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ 5 members were elected for a second term
๐Ÿ†• 12 were elected for their first term

โ™€๏ธโ™‚๏ธ13 women, 4 men

๐Ÿ“Š 76.5% voter turnout

The new Steering Committee will officially begin its four-year term on 20 November 2025 at an in-person meeting during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ‘

๐Ÿ‘‰ Learn more about the election process here: https://gfmd.info/steering-committee-2025-2029/

Meet new SC members:

๐ŸŒ Africa (Central, Eastern, Southern, Western)
Catherine Gicheru โ€“ Africa Women Journalism Project (Kenya)
Zoรฉ Titus โ€“ NMT Media Foundation (formerly Namibia Media Trust) (Namibia)

๐ŸŒ Asia, Pacific and Oceania
Laxman Datt Pant โ€“ Media Action Nepal (Nepal)
Nasr ul Hadi โ€“ PROTO (India)

๐ŸŒ Eastern Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia
Milka Domanoviฤ‡ โ€“ Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Lina Kushch โ€“ ะะฐั†ั–ะพะฝะฐะปัŒะฝะฐ ัะฟั–ะปะบะฐ ะถัƒั€ะฝะฐะปั–ัั‚ั–ะฒ ะฃะบั€ะฐั—ะฝะธ (ะะกะ–ะฃ) (Ukraine)

๐ŸŒ Europe (Northern, Southern, Western)
Lars Boering โ€“ European Journalism Centre (EJC) (Netherlands)

๐ŸŒŽ Latin America & the Caribbean
Adriana Garcia โ€“ Abraji โ€“ Associaรงรฃo Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo (Brazil)
Kiran Maharaj โ€“ Media Institute of the Caribbean - MIC (Jamaica / Trinidad & Tobago)

๐ŸŒ Middle East & North Africa
Rawan Damen โ€“ ARIJ (Jordan)
Shireen Al Khatib โ€“ Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (Palestine)

๐ŸŒŽ North America
Courtney Radsch, PhD โ€“ Center for Journalism and Liberty (USA)

๐ŸŽฏ Topical/Policy-Focused
Angie Drobnic Holan โ€“ International Fact-Checking Network (USA)
Toby Mendel โ€“ Centre for Law and Democracy (Canada)

๐ŸŒ Global
Caroline Vuilleminโ€“ Fondation Hirondelle (Switzerland)
Quinn McKewโ€“ ARTICLE 19 19 (UK)
Simon Bishop โ€“ BBC Media Action (UK)

๐Ÿ‘ A huge thank you to all 54 member organisations who nominated candidates and to the outgoing SC members for their service and leadership.

๐Ÿ“ข  The July edition of MediaDev Insider is out! โžก๏ธ Read the full newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/d_i4Ti3ZThis issue fea...
16/07/2025

๐Ÿ“ข The July edition of MediaDev Insider is out!
โžก๏ธ Read the full newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/d_i4Ti3Z

This issue features:
๐Ÿ“Š Mapping Report on media assistance in Asia, Pacific & Oceania (2020โ€“2024)
๐Ÿ“ฐ Case study: Media group Media Group experience of sustaining journalism amid conflict and funding cuts
๐ŸŒ GFMD at โ€“ Advocating for Ethical AI & media freedom
๐Ÿ”Ž Latest policy & advocacy opportunities
๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ News from across the GFMD network

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