Featured Reports
21st December 2023
Swedish public media feeling financial and political pressures
SR and SVT have announced important changes following new savings plans, while political scrutiny of public media rises.
21st December 2023
KBS to Overcome Financial Challenges
KBS conducted a critical workshop on 28 November 2023 to address funding, with the impending separate collection of licence fees.
20th December 2023
New management at TVP as former gov’t leaders stage sit-in
Politicians of the Poland’s former populist government staged a sit-in at the TVP HQ, claiming to be “defending democracy”.
Recent News
8th February 2023
Public broadcasters create “Public Spaces Incubator”
Four public broadcasters are partnering to develop solutions to address increasingly toxic, polarized and unsafe online discourse.
8th February 2023
RNZ-TVNZ merger scrapped
Work towards the long-mooted merger is to “stop entirely” as part of cuts to government’s work programme and a renewed focus on cost-of-living crisis.
7th February 2023
India: Space for media freedom shrinking
Recent censorship highlights the continuing pressure on media freedom and independent journalism in the country.
7th February 2023
PSM Weekly | 1 – 7 February 2023
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
7th February 2023
TVO joins the Public Media Alliance
The Canadian regional broadcaster, TVO, is the latest public media orgnisation to join the Public Media Alliance.
6th February 2023
RTVE stands at a crossroads again
Public broadcaster RTVE is once again facing a management crisis, with the appointment of a new president unlikely to take place until 2024.
3rd February 2023
Priority to provide public service on TikTok
Providing trusted news and information on TikTok has become a bigger priority for some public media organisations to help combat growing disinformation on the platform.
31st January 2023
PSM Weekly | 25 – 31 January 2023
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
30th January 2023
Slovakia: Licence fee faces possible abolition
Slovak public broadcaster RTVS’s licence fee structure faces axing, with plans to suspend the funding model from July 2023 up in the air.
30th January 2023
NZ: New public media in doubt
There are fears that the creation of a new public media entity is in doubt after the resignation of Jacinda Ardern.
27th January 2023
We need a more humanitarian journalism
A new book argues for a more humanitarian journalism, caring less about how 'newsworthy' a crisis is and more about the scale of suffering.