Sameer Padania
GUEST SPEAKER
Sameer Padania runs independent consultancy Macroscope, which works with diverse stakeholders—including independent media, philanthropy, civil society, businesses, think tanks, and governments—on strategies, policies, and funding mechanisms to defend, support, and grow public interest journalism ecosystems around the world. He leads the Local News Plans initiative for the UK's Public Interest News Foundation, which includes the country's first Local News Fund in Newry, Northern Ireland, and is on a Visiting Fellowship with the German Marshall Fund's Cities Program.
