Mel Bunce







Foundations, philanthropy and international journalism

News stories about international development and humanitarian crises are expensive to produce and frequently neglected by the mainstream media. This paper examines the private foundations that are stepping in to finance this news and their growing influence over journalism and international news content

Keywords: foundations, philanthropy, international news, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, development journalism


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Note on the contributor

Dr Mel Bunce is a Lecturer in Journalism at City University London. Her doctoral studies, completed at Oxford University, researched foreign correspondents in Sub-Saharan Africa, and she is the co-editor of Africa's media image in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2016, forthcoming) with Professor Suzanne Franks and Dr Chris Paterson. She is currently working on a long-term study of humanitarian news production with Dr Martin Scott and Dr Kate Wright. And she convenes the Humanitarian News Research Network, based at City University London.