From 19-23 April 2023, journalists, activists and academics gathered in Perugia, Italy, for the seventeenth annual International Journalism Festival. Joe Mitchell and Jonathan Heawood attended on behalf of PINF. Here, they reflect on their time at the Festival. Joe Mitchell: This was an old-school, talk-at-you conference,
The Public Interest News Foundation seeks six organisers to support the News for All campaign by working with independent news providers in the UK’s regions and nations to mobilise their audiences and call for support for the provision of public interest news across the UK. Since we launched PINF
The Public Interest News Foundation seeks proposals for two small consultancy projects to create, curate and collate useful materials on (a) building and communicating the impact of public interest news, and (b) on news and community engagement. Since launching PINF in March 2020, we have provided independent news providers with
Jonathan Heawood discusses his main takeaways from the Society of Editors' annual conference earlier this month. On 15 March, the Society of Editors held its annual conference. Industry executives, analysts and lobbyists came together in a central London hotel to discuss media freedom and the future of news. Listening