How do some of the world’s most prominent foundations focused on supporting media and journalism make their decisions on who or what to fund? What do they really look for? Which ideas energise them ...
Stephanie Reuter
director Rudolf Augstein Foundation
Stephanie Reuter is the director of the German Rudolf Augstein Foundation. Before joining the foundation in 2011 she headed the office of the Institute for Cultural and Media Management at the University for Music and Theatre in Hamburg. The trained journalist and cultural manager, who holds master’s degrees in both subjects, has not only worked with major German media such as press agency dpa and broadcasters ZDF and SWR, but also in the foundation sector with several German foundations such as Robert Bosch Foundation and the Stiftung Zollverein. She is an alumna of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and was a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2017 where she did research about the future of foundation-supported journalism. Stephanie is also a member of the Steering Committee of the German Expert Group Foundations and Quality Journalism. The group helps foundations to become supporters of quality journalism.
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13 april 2018
Funders confidential. Leading donors open up on their decision processes to reveal who they fund and why
How do some of the world's most prominent foundations focused on supporting media and journalism make their decisions on who or what to fund? What do they really look for? Which ideas energise them an...
The panel will focus on media ownership, investigating the relationship between quality journalism and independent foundations. The role of foundations regarding quality journalism will be discusse...