Sameer Padania is an internationally trusted analyst in and advocate for better funding, financing, policy and protections for public interest media. Through independent consultancy Macroscope, he works with diverse stakeholders on strategies, policies and funding mechanisms to defend, support & grow public interest journalism ecosystems around the world. He leads the Public Interest News Foundation’s Local News Plans initiative, including the UK’s first Local News Fund in Newry, Northern Ireland, and is a Visiting Fellow with the German Marshall Fund. His reports include the Forum on Information and Democracy’s global report calling on governments to deliver A New Deal for Journalism, an overview of media and journalism festivals in the Global South, and guides on grantmaking to journalism, funding investigative journalism, and developing national funds for journalism. He is a Fellow of the RSA, and is a trustee of the Indigo Trust, Doc Society and the Orwell Foundation.