IMS combines rapid response with long-term efforts to create a foundation of trust and collaboration on the ground. We work together with our partners to find local solutions to global problems – and global solutions to local problems.
With partners in more than 30 countries, IMS works where independent media is at the greatest risk: in countries experiencing armed conflict, humanitarian crises, rapid political change or authoritarian rule.
Support for journalists and media development comes in many forms. Learn more about how you can engage with IMS’ work and support us and our partners.
Investigative reporting by an IMS media partner prompted the Kurdistan Regional Government to crack down on illegal refineries linked to cancer clusters.
Since March, independent Lebanese media outlets Daraj and Megaphone have been subjected to a smear campaign involving leading Lebanese media outlets, coordinated online attacks and defamations as well as several legal complaints.
Across the globe, media outlets are collapsing under the weight of failing business models, vanishing advertising revenues and escalating political pressure. This report responds to a rising demand from the media development field to understand how private capital can complement and strengthen traditional donor funding. The private sector alone will not save journalism, but it cannot remain on the sidelines.
