Annette Laborey
As executive director (1973-1991) of the Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle Européene, Annette Laborey worked to support independent intellectuals, journalists and creative artists in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia and, later on, in the Baltic States and the DDR. Since 1991, she has been executive director of the Open Society Institute in Paris, the Western European liaison and resource office for the Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations.
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Impact
- In 2008, more than 32 million people in developing democracies got their news from 37 MDLF clients, an increase of almost 3.5 million from 2007.
- After 5 years with MDLF, current clients on average have increased their sales by 370%.
- For every $10,000 invested in 2008, MDLF supported access to independent news for 8,789 readers, listeners and viewers, more than double the 1999 level of 4,238.
