# Articles and videos

### [After 260 journalism innovation grants, Google has decided smaller and quicker is better](https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2022/google-journalism-innovation-challenges-grants/)

While others practice a long-term ‘go-big-or-go-home’ strategy, Google’s philanthropy has taken the opposite tack.

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### [Saving Journalism 2: Global Strategies and a Look at Investigative Journalism](https://www.kas.de/de/web/usa/publikationen/einzeltitel/-/content/saving-journalism-2-global-strategies-and-a-look-at-investigative-journalism)

Anya Schiffrin, Hannah Clifford, and Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey have co-authored the second instalment of the 2021 report [Saving Journalism: A Vision for the Post-Covid World](https://www.kas.de/documents/283221/283270/KAS_Saving+Journalism.pdf/8ee31596-7166-30b4-551f-c442686f91ae?version=1.4\&t=1611338643015), which examined the state of journalism during the pandemic. This second instalment, [Saving Journalism 2: Global Strategies and a Look at Investigative Journalism](https://www.kas.de/de/web/usa/publikationen/einzeltitel/-/content/saving-journalism-2-global-strategies-and-a-look-at-investigative-journalism) goes back to look at some of the promising measurements identified in the original report. GIJN has been granted permission to publish three excerpts from the report on [finding the right funding](https://gijn.org/2022/01/18/saving-journalism-sustainability-government-funding/), [the dire situation for news outlets in Africa](https://gijn.org/2022/01/19/saving-journalism-part-two-in-africa-a-dearth-of-support-amid-the-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR13HBEK8-Sxcowpg9ks4kBQrQEBKgpAg1SxJDnDpp9aCgk60s__DEe4-RY), or [the difficulties facing investigative journalism](https://gijn.org/2022/01/20/saving-journalism-part-three-investigative-reporting-essential-but-under-threat/).

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### [Can philanthropic funding save journalism?](https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/can-philanthropic-funding-save-good-journalism-/s2/a891664/)

Marcela Kunova of [journalism.co.uk](https://www.journalism.co.uk/) has good news to report on the state of funding for independent news in the US and details how the [Institute for Nonprofit News (INN)](https://archive.inn.org/) has helped secure both philanthropic funding through the [NewsMatch](https://www.newsmatch.org/) initiative and taught journalists how to diversify their revenue streams. If you’re thinking “if only this could be replicated on a global level” then check out the International Fund for Public Interest Media.&#x20;

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### [Why we should invest in a free press](https://www.ted.com/talks/sasa_vucinic_why_we_should_invest_in_a_free_press)

In 2006, [Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)](https://www.mdif.org/) co-founder and former Managing Director Saša Vučinić speaks at the TED Conference about why he established the non-profit investment fund. "Government accountability, corruption, how do you fight corruption, giving voice to unheard, to poor -- it's why independent media is in business," said Vučinić.

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