The latest events related to the world of public service media

From conferences to symposiums and launch dates, we strive to highlight a wide range of international public service media events.

PMA events


Events being hosted by PMA, or events which we are partnering on!


PSM Unpacked [Recurring]

The challenges facing public service media are not only growing but are also shared more widely than ever before. From funding to journalist safety, this series of roundtable forums is designed for PMA members to discuss these challenges and also share innovations, successes and solutions.

Each session, a small group of employees at PMA member organisations gather to informally exchange knowledge and best practices, and discuss how their organisations manage operations across different subject areas.

The sessions are organised on a regular basis, and bring together people in similar positions at like-minded organisations. They are also good networking opportunities, so staff can meet and speak with their global peers.

Date: 23 November 2023

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Radiodays Europe 2024

Radiodays Europe 2024. Credit: Radiodays
With over 1600 participants from 62 countries, Radiodays Europe is the meeting point for radio professionals from around the world to innovate, tackle challenges and discuss all things radio.

Its core purpose is to raise the awareness of radio, audio and podcast to inspire innovation and collaboration within the radio and audio industry and to encourage programme development and good radio journalism. RDE is organised as an annual conference in the spring of a different European city each year.

We are pleased to once again be partnering with Radiodays Europe to offer our members discounted tickets. The event is due to take place in-person on the 17 – 19 March 2024.

PMA Members can access a special rate for tickets by contacting us here.

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Upcoming events related to public service media

Nobel Prize Dialogue Brussels

5 March 2024

Venue: Brussels

How do we make democracies work for the greatest benefit to humanity? In a big election year, including the European elections in June 2024, join the Nobel Prize Dialogue – the first ever in Brussels. This evening event will bring together a constellation of Nobel Prize laureates, thought leaders, policy-makers, as well as researchers at the forefront of knowledge to discuss the most pressing issue of our time. Themes such as the power of narratives in democracies, fact-based worldviews, AI and other technologies will take centre stage. 

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EBU Data Technology Seminar 2024

12-13 March 2024

Venue: Geneva 

The EBU Data Tech Seminar (DTS), is the only industry event specifically looking at data and AI applications in media. It is a reference point and annual fixture on the calendar for experts in data and AI technology who are shaping tomorrow’s solutions for media. DTS combines a conference programme with deep dives and networking.

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Digital Media India 2024

Date: 13 – 14 March 2024

Venue: New Delhi, India

Digital Media India (DMI) Conference is South Asia’s premier meeting place for digital news media professionals.Since its inception in 2009, this conference has been a beacon of innovation and growth, reflecting the rapid evolution of the digital media landscape in the region. The event serves as a vital platform for industry leaders to share their experiences, discuss emerging trends, and collaborate on strategies to navigate the ever-changing digital media landscape.

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Identifying Africa’s Untold Climate Change Stories

13 March 2024

Venue: Online

Wanjira Mathai is Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute and has over 20 years of experience advocating for social and environmental change in Africa. She was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Women in 2018, 2020 and 2021, having served important strategic and advocacy roles at Women Entrepreneurs in Renewables (wPOWER), the Wangari Maathai Foundation (WMF), and the Green Belt Movement (GBM) the organization her mother, Wangari Maathai (2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) founded in 1977.

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Human Tech Transition:Crises in Mediatized Politics, Society & Economy

13 – 15 March 2024

Venue: Warsaw, Poland

2024 International Communication Association (ICA) regional conference Human Tech Transition welcomes research from multiple disciplines that investigates communication immersed in modern technologies through the prism of changes imposed by the crises of modernity. Media, new technologies, and the crises of today’s world are a triad whose interpenetration and relations will be the theme of our conference. We argue that linking empirical social research with technological advances will help better understand individuals’ and social groups’ behaviour.

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Radio Days Europe 

Date: 17-19 March 

Venue: Messe München GmbH, Munich

In a time of change, Radiodays Europe brings the industry together and lead the development as the most innovative and creative initiative in the radio and audio world. The purpose of Radiodays Europe (RDE) is to raise the awareness of radio, audio and podcast. In its 13th year the conference has become the leading radio, audio, podcast conference of its kind in the world.

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Emerging Directions in News Use Research: Project Launch Event & Open Conference

20 March 2024

Venue: Virtual

Emerging Directions in News Use Research – a day-long, international, virtual conference – aims to bring together a global group of scholars involved with researching news use, news audiences and consumption, and news engagement and disengagement. We are keen to hear from a range of empirical contexts, from projects using tried and tested as well as more creative and innovative methodologies, and to showcase the work of scholars across career stages in the fields of Sociology, Journalism, Media and Communication, and more.

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News Use Conference

20 March 2024

Venue: Virtual

This event marks the launch of the Leverhulme Trust funded parents’ news use project – which runs from the fall of 2023 to the fall of 2025. The Leverhulme News Use project aims to examine how parents engage with and respond to news at critical moments of crisis. The project team includes Professor Ranjana Das, Dr Thomas Roberts, Dr Emily Setty and Dr Maria-Nerina Boursinou from the Department of Sociology (University of Surrey).

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#YouthMediaLife 2024

25 – 28 March 2024

Venue: Vienna, Austria

This three-day conference at the University of Vienna has at its heart questions about young people’s media practices and the manifold questions they raise: What mediatisation processes are part of young people’s life worlds and how do they impact on the dynamics between individuation and group formation processes? How are identities co-constructed in and through digital media and what role do strategies play which young people employ deliberately to distinguish between analogue and digital practices?

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Mobile First News Sites Master Class

14-21 March 2024

Venue: Virtual

Creating engaging mobile-first news media sites is the focus of this first-of-its-kind master class. In this case study-driven event, learn what it means to be truly mobile-first, how to build a world-class mobile site, and design and user experience essentials for the mobile. We will learn more about optimising for the consumer experience: intuitive navigation, building for speed, responsive design, and smart resourcing.

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25th International Symposium on Online Journalism

12-13 April 2024 

Venue: University of Texas, Austin (USA) 

The International Symposium on Online Journalism is a program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin, a unique conference that bridges the gap between academia and the news industry.

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Last Updated: 1st March 2024

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Catch up with our recent events

DIGITAL VIOLENCE | Issues & challenges for women in Haiti (French)

As a prelude to International Women’s Day 2022, PMA and its partners PANOS Caribbean, UNESCO Haiti, and Solidarite des femmes haitiennes journalistes (SOFEHJ) organised an event in Haiti on digital safety for female journalists.

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The impacts of COVID-19 on the Southeast Asian media landscape

On Thursday 20th January, the Public Media Alliance (PMA), in partnership with the Asia Democracy Network (ADN) and with support from UNESCO Bangkok, launched a report exploring the state of media freedom, media business viability and journalist safety in ten countries in Southeast Asia during the COVID-19 crisis, and an accompanying draft Media Recovery Plan. We were joined by media stakeholders from across the region and the project’s country experts to share their insights on the challenges and threats facing journalists and media workers.

Radiodays Asia 2021

Talking COVID – The personal Experience

Catch up with PMA’s session from this year’s Radiodays Asia, where we spoke to journalists and radio producers about their experiences during the pandemic and discussed the innovations and changes in the way we work that are here to stay.

Watch the sessions again on Radioday’s Catch Up platform.

Welcoming New Neighbours: How public media works for refugees and asylum seekers

As publicly funded organisations, public media must be representative of and accessible to all groups within society. This includes welcoming new residents, such as refugees and asylum seekers, as they integrate into new environments.

Catchup with the Public Media Alliance’s special online event as part of Refugee Week, exploring how public broadcasters are covering the lives of refugees and asylum seekers as they make new homes here in the UK.

If you have any suggestions for events related to the world of public service media please email PMA at editor@publicmediaalliance.org.