Sameer Padania
Macroscope London Director
London
Sameer Padania runs
Macroscope, an independent consultancy focused on strengthening public interest journalism in the UK, Europe and beyond. He has worked and consulted for leading organisations in these fields - including Nesta, Wellcome, Open Society, WAN-IFRA, the European Cultural Foundation, The Philanthropy Workshop and the Google DNI Innovation Fund - on a wide range of innovative journalism, digital media, activism and policy initiatives. He is the author of
An Introduction to Funding Journalism and Media (Ariadne/TAI, 2018)
, a guide for donors, philanthropists and other funders new to or curious about supporting journalism,
How to Fund Investigative Journalism (Deutsche Welle Akademie, 2019), and the monthly Journalism Funders Forum newsletter on how public interest media in Europe gets funded (2019- ).