Global journalism is fighting for international development funding but shouldn’t need to. Especially now.

As governments struggle in response to COVID-19, long-term investments in global media are needed to keep people safe and newsrooms healthy.

Rieneke Van Santen
Digital Diplomacy
Published in
8 min readOct 8, 2020

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Newspapers are seen covering a window behind a closed shutter of a bar during the lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Paul White)

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Rieneke Van Santen
Digital Diplomacy

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