How to grow thriving media businesses in the toughest circumstances
Ven 11 aprile 2025
10:30 - 11:20
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Making enough money to grow and sustain good journalism is tough everywhere. But in places where governments and their proxies come after you for what you publish, where most foreign grant funding is outlawed, and where you and your colleagues have been forced to relocate overseas, it’s even harder. And yet, independent media businesses grow and thrive regardless.
Come hear how some of the most creative media producers in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are building audiences and having outsized impact despite the odds, how they sustain and raise funds, how they are innovating with documentaries, film, tech and across social channels, and what they are learning from their audiences and community.
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Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.
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Mary Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald is Director of Expression at Open Society Foundations, leading its global work to advance open society values at the intersection of journalism, technology, and culture and art. Prior to joining the Open Society, Fitzgerald was editor-in-chief and CEO of the global news outlet openDemocracy, where she built an award-winning team of journalists and oversaw major growth in the organization’s global reach and impact. She established an investigative journalism unit and led ground-breaking campaigns to defend journalism and force transparency from governments and big tech. Before openDemocracy, she worked as a senior campaigner with the global organization Avaaz, where she organized campaigns to defend human rights and expose corruption, and as a senior editor of Prospect magazine in London. She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New York Review of Books, the Boston Globe, Al Jazeera, and others. She currently sits on the Avaaz b...
Sruthi Gottipati
Sruthi Gottipati is a journalist launching a Gen Z-focused news startup. She was most recently a media executive at Brut overseeing North America and India for the French digital video company. As founding editor of Brut India in 2017, she created the country’s most watched and influential English-language media juggernaut across social platforms from scratch. Sruthi was also an Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. She's previously been awarded fellowships from IWMF and IRP to cover underreported stories from Africa and Latin America. Prior to that, she was a reporter for Thomson Reuters and The New York Times. She holds a Master’s from Columbia Journalism School.
Josy Joseph
Josy Joseph, an award-winning writer and journalist based in New Delhi, is the founder of Confluence Media, a platform-agnostic investigative journalism outfit. His first book, A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India, won the 2017 Crossword Award for the best non-fiction book. He has won several awards for his journalism, including the Prem Bhatia Trust’s ‘India’s best political reporter’ in 2010 and the ‘Journalist of the Year’ Ramnath Goenka award in 2013. The Prem Bhatia trust citation said the award was ‘for his scoops and revelations, which include a list of scams that have become familiar names in the political lexicon’. Josy has exposed some of India’s biggest scandals—among them, the Mumbai Adarsh Housing scam and the 2010 Commonwealth Games scams—and his stories have played a significant role in impacting the country’s social and political narrative. He was the National Security Editor of The Hindu newspaper until August 2018, when he left to start Confluence Media. Previously, he has also worked with The Times of India as its Editor, Special Projects, Daily News and Analysis (DNA) as an Associate Editor, and several other mainstream publications. At Confluence Media, Josy is experimenting with creating a commercially viable, scalable, quality journalism outfit.