Media Impact Funders

Our August newsletter is here! 🗞️ https://bit.ly/3yYn4K2 Meet some of the speakers and ideas taking center stage at #JFunders24. Plus, catch up on what the MIF community has been up to this summer ☀️

At Media Impact Funders last fall in NYC, Angelica Das rolled out these immediate-term strategies for funders to support free, fair news + info around elections, and invited Rashad Mahmood and I to share what's working in each of our local funding. Her rundown is *even more useful* as we turn to the final weeks before early voting and then the election. Full post linked in the comments. In NC, we'll be moving money to the field in the coming weeks. If you're interested in adding funding fuel to that round, there's still a little time.

Meet some of our speakers taking the stage at JFunders24 📣 We can't wait to hear from these voices on Oct. 23 & 24 at KQED in San Francisco 👏 Funders, reserve your seat at JFunders24 today: https://lnkd.in/eyxQv9GB

This is such a useful post from Angelica Das with specific examples and ideas. What other examples and projects would you add? 

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Our Journalism and Media team recently attended the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia! Lauren Pabst, Senior Program Officer, and Maori Karmael Holmes, #BlackStar's CEO and Artistic Director, discussed the genesis of the event, how it's grown, and the future of the festival during a funder convening hosted by Media Impact Funders. At "Engines for a New American Narrative," Color Congress co-Executive Directors Sahar Driver and Sonya Crespo Childress reflected on their experience blazing pathways for bold nonfiction work. The conversation featured filmmakers Anurima Bhargava and Nadine Patterson, as well as Francis Cullado, Executive Director of Visual Communications Media, and Marángeli Mejía-Rabell, Director and Chief Curator of the Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival. Check out a few highlights! ⬇

Get a look inside MIF's funder gathering ahead of the 2024 BlackStar Film Festival 📽️ Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to a great conversation. We can't wait to see you at our next event 🤝 #blackstar #blackstarfilmfestival #filmfunding

News orgs need to start seriously thinking about how valuable their archives are. Have any news orgs experimented with the idea of a reverse paywall? For example, leave everything open for first 30 days to build top of funnel, ensure recent and breaking news are available to the public, meet their mission of openness, etc. — but then close it with a donation or subscription CTA for people who want to access the archives (and keep GAI crawlers at bay). Orgs could put a GAI search behind the paywall to make their archives even more useful. 🤔