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"Creative Funding for Creative Media" conference brings together leaders in innovative media funding
On November 6 and 7, the Future Media Lab. hosted the first European conference on innovative media funding in Ghent, Belgium. The event, which was part of the annual iMinds conference “Creative Media Days”, brought together leading experts in creative media funding approaches with journalists and publishing representatives. The discussions prompted a call for new forms of cooperation between donor organizations and media companies and a rethink of the way journalism is financed and published. There was also recognition of the need for journalists and publishers to effectively interact with their “communities” of readers.