Tanzania Media Foundation

Our support to the media aims to promote professionalism, quality content production, editorial independence and economic sustainability. Through grants to individuals and institutions, TMF is changing how the media sector in Tanzania operates. Read more about our theory of change, vision and outcomes in our 2015-2018 strategic plan. The Content with Transformation grant aims to help us achieve sustainable change in media organisations. Through this grant we not only support the production of quality media content but also invest in addressing the structural issues that often make it difficult for media outlets to ensure sustainable quality investigative and public journalism. According to TMF research, rural coverage represents as little as 25.4 per cent of the stories in the media. This means that 70.4 per cent of the Tanzanian population receives a meagre quarter of the medias attention. We want to see that change. Read more about our rural dispatch grant and other efforts by TMF to support efforts to tell a variety of stories from rural Tanzania. We seek to support and promote investigative and public interest journalism through grants and learning, so that the public is better informed, able to debate and demand greater accountability across Tanzania. TMF offers five different grants. These have been developed in order to increase the quality, quantity and diversity of investigative and public interest journalism products in the media as well as to strengthen the professional capacity of journalists and media institutions. The journalist becomes a good journalist through the practice and repetition of what good journalism entails. To facilitate this, all TMF grants have an intensive learning by doing component and TMF runs a mentoring programme that aims to bring the best out of all our grantees Our second batch of 2017 rural dispatch grantees are meeting in Dodoma from 4 to 8 July 2017. Amo Late 2013 TMF commissioned Synovate to carry out an audience survey. The survey itself was done b Jul 18, 2019 ...