[allAfrica] Cape Town — Khadija Patel, elected chairperson of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s global Executive Board, former editor-in-chief of South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper, co-founder of online publication The Daily Vox, and head of programmes for the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) told AllAfrica’s Andre van Wyk why the fund is a crucial step in finding solutions for the funding crunch experienced by independent, public interest media.
