While the news industry struggles to find sustainable revenue models, philanthropy from foundations has emerged as a possible solution to support editorial gaps and priorities. In the past few years, ...
Miguel Castro
Miguel Castro is senior officer, Global Media Partnerships at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At the foundation since 2012, Miguel helps define and manage the foundation’s global partnerships and media and communications grant-making global portfolio. This include developing projects with media organizations, international broadcasters, digital/social media and documentary in dozens of countries, including projects with Al Jazeera, BBC World Service, Le Monde, El Pais and the Financial Times, among many others.
Prior to this, Miguel was special projects manager, Media Program at the Open Society Foundations where he joined in 2004. A journalist by training and education, he has worked as a radio, print, and ENG reporter, and was press secretary to a senior public official. He has also worked as a professional photographer in the United States and was visiting professor of Digital Media and Advocacy Communications at IE’s School of Human Sciences and Technology. He focuses currently on improving media and communications measurement and impact analysis and is working with institutions such as the Media Impact Project at USC Annenberg and the Center for Social Media Research at Peking University.
Events IJF 2020
Foundation funding confidential: why the foundations do it, how they do it, and what “success” looks like
For most editors and newsrooms, the thought of asking for money to support editorial priorities is a highly daunting prospect. How do you match foundation support and real editorial priorities? Once y...
Is philanthropy-funded journalism “real” journalism - and how does it work in a traditional newsroom?
At a growing number of traditional and legacy news organizations, philanthropy is supporting reporting and journalism projects that otherwise might not be possible. In news organizations--large and s...
How do some of the world’s most prominent foundations focused on supporting media and journalism make their decisions on who or what to fund? What do they really look for? Which ideas energise them ...
We live in a time when trust is in decline: trust in politicians, trust in institutions, trust in media, even trust in experts. We are drowning in spin and opinions at the same time as many of us are ...
Funders confidential. Leading donors open up on their decision processes to reveal who they fund and why
How do some of the world's most prominent foundations focused on supporting media and journalism make their decisions on who or what to fund? What do they really look for? Which ideas energise them an...
