The Independent Journalism Foundation (IJF) was founded in 1991 by James L. Greenfield, a member of The New York Times' editorial board, to help fellow journalists in post-Communist countries upgrade their reporting skills, technology and business practices. He was joined by Don Wilson, a former Vice President of Time Inc., who is currently a publisher of a newspaper in New Jersey.

IJF's first initiative was to establish the Center for Independent Journalism in Prague, before Czechoslovakia was divided into two republics, making us one of the first non-profit groups following the collapse of Communism to have a continuing presence in Eastern and Central Europe. Building on the success of the Prague Center, which closed in 2001, IJF launched Centers for Independent Journalism in Bratislava, Slovakia (1993), Bucharest, Romania (1994), Budapest, and Hungary (1995) and Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2001).

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