Crawford Media Consulting
Around the world, democracies are waking up to a market failure in news. We’ve been talking about it for more than a decade. Now things are starting to happen. Governments are becoming involved in financing public interest journalism. This will become one of the big picture developments in news, the kind of development that marks […]
In late 2020 the Australian government handed out over $53m in more than 100 grants as part of the Public Interest News Gathering (PING) programme. The overwhelming majority of the money (87%) went to the 10 biggest recipients. The funding distribution is pretty clear in the treemap above. For a more precise breakdown of the […]