{The United Nations plans a 2015 re-launch of its Irin humanitarian news agency as an independent non-profit organization.}<\/p>\n
A Hong Kong foundation has committed an investment of $25M over 15 years to help bankroll Irin, which covers the $22B humanitarian sector in Africa, Asia and he Middle East. Publshing in English, French and Arabic, Iran plans to push into China and South America.<\/p>\n
Jho Low, spokesperson for the Jynwel Foundation, said its investment in Irin should help kick start it “with a strong enough capital base that they don’t have to worry about money,” according to a report in the Financial Times.<\/p>\n
Irin will continue to get some funding from the UN, donors and advertising. It has syndication deals with Al Jazeera and UK’s Guardian.<\/p>\n
The FT compared Irin’s business model to ProPublica, which runs as a donor-sponsored non-profit, and Vice Media, which has partnerships with Time Warner’s HBO and Canada’s Rogers Communications.<\/p>\n
Irin was founded in 1995 following the genocide in Rwanda. Its UN funding was to expire at the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Low told the FT that Irin has “the spirit of an NGO and at the same time the intensity of a business platform to ensure that our message gets around the world.”<\/p>\n
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