When governments fund journalism: walking the independence tightrope
Sab 12 aprile 2025
09:30 - 10:20
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Many investigative journalism outlets depend on public funding to carry out their work, especially when traditional revenue streams are shrinking. But reliance on taxpayer money raises critical challenges: How can these outlets ensure editorial independence while managing public perceptions and countering the growing trend of bad actors labelling journalists as foreign agents? Join us for a frank discussion about how best to balance accountability, credibility and integrity.
Moderated by Timothy Large.
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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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Anuska Delic
Based in Slovenia, Anuška Delić is an investigative reporter and founder of Oštro, a non-profit center for investigative journalism in the Adriatic region. In 2021, Oštro established a sister center in Zagreb, Croatia, effectively creating a unique two-headed micro-regional entity dedicated to impactful investigations in the two neighboring countries and beyond. She is a Balkans regional editor at OCCRP, and a member of ICIJ. For a dozen years before establishing Oštro, she was a journalist with the national daily Delo. Among other issues, she investigated neo-Nazis in the ranks of the main right-wing party for which she was ""awarded"" with a criminal complaint by the Slovenian intelligence agency. She was acquitted but the process culminated in a change of the Criminal Code to conditionally allow the publication of state secrets in the public interest.
Timothy Large
Timothy Large is director of independent media programmes at the International Press Institute (IPI) in Vienna, where he manages the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund, which channels millions of euros of public and philanthropic money into cross-border watchdog reporting. He is an award-winning journalist, editor and media development specialist. Before joining IPI in 2020, Timothy was the founding editor of the Reporting Democracy investigative platform covering central and southeast Europe. He was also editor of cross-border projects at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, where he ran the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Reuters, where he built a team of Reuters journalists dedicated to covering under-reported stories for TRF’s global newswire (now the Context digital news platform). He was also head of the Foundation’s media development programmes, overseeing journalism training worldwide and independent news services in Egypt, Zimbabwe and Myanmar. Previously, he was editor of the Reuters AlertNet global humanitarian news service, a Reuters correspondent in Tokyo and a feature writer for a Japanese daily.
Frederik Obermaier
Frederik Obermaier is a book author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. Together with his colleague Bastian Obermayer he founded the Munich-based investigative newsroom paper trail media. In Germany, paper trail media is exclusively partnering with the magazine Der Spiegel and the public broadcaster ZDF. In Austria, paper trail media collaborates with Der Standard. Obermaier is one of the two reporters first contacted by the anonymous source of the Panama Papers, the leaked documents that prompted a global investigation involving hundreds of journalists. He also co-initiated the Paradise Papers-revelations and the Suisse Secrets-investigations. Frederik is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, board-member of Arab Reporter for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), co-founder of the Anti Corruption Data Collective and co-author with Bastian Obermayer of the international bestsellers Panama Papers – Breaking the story of how the rich and powerful hide their money (Oneworld Publications, 2017) and The Ibiza Affair - Inside views of a scandal (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2019). Together with Obermayer and the journalist Hannes Munzinger he co-authored the book Suisse Secrets - How bankers hid money from tax evaders, torture generals, dictators and the Catholic Church - with the help of politics (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2022).