Global

Media Development Loan Fund

The Fund was founded in late 1995 as a non-profit organisation under U.S. law to provide financing to media organisations in newly independent countries in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe. Later the MDLF extended its area of operation and today it works with a public charity status also in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Other activities besides financing include consulting services and fiscal sponsorship, training and sharing of gained knowledge and experiences in the field, online strategy development including e-commerce, and adaptation of technology and web architecture at the new-media lab; the Center for Advanced Media-Prague (CAMP).

Further, the MDLF established the Media Training Center (MTC) to provide specialised and highly targeted media-management courses for managers of news media operating in developing democracies.

Na vinicnich horach 24a/1834

160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Tel +420 2 2431 2832, Fax +420 2 2431 5419

mdlf@mdlf.org

www.mdlf.org

Contact

Stuart Auerbach, Director of Development

Number of staff

Publications

Are You Sure Want to Start a Magazine? Radio Tartu A Case Study in Starting a Radio Station, So You Want to Run a TV Station

A Manual of Survival A Case Study of the Slovak Opposition Newspaper SME, Beta New Agency A Case Study of a News Agency Operating under Siege