Philanthropy plays an ever more important role in journalism as conventional business model erodes; at the same time, fundraising is a source of angst and frustration for many news organizations.
In this candid conversation, a mix of grant makers and grant seekers will talk about how they manage the donor-grantee relationship, work together to address the challenges and seize the opportunities in the field of journalism, and give the audience a clear and honest sense of how the philanthropy-journalism dynamic works on a day-to-day basis.
The goal of this conversation is to demystify the fundraising/grant-seeking process for practitioners and to help philanthropists understand what is necessary and helpful in making journalism sustainable and able to fulfill its vitally important civic mission.
