Vincent Stehle, Media Impact Funders: Foundations and Public Interest Media

At the studios of Democracy Now! in Manhattan, Philanthropy News Digest spoke with Vincent Stehle, executive director of Media Impact Funders, about how the media landscape has changed since MIF was founded in 2006, the fuzzy line between “money and influence” that media funders have to navigate, and his idea that foundations should create a rapid-response mechanism “to respond to major threats and opportunities in a more timely fashion.”