Featured Reports


SVT SR

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.


The KBS logo on the side of its HQ building.

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. 


Poland TVP

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


Public broadcasters create “Public Spaces Incubator”

Four public broadcasters are partnering to develop solutions to address increasingly toxic, polarized and unsafe online discourse.

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.

India: Space for media freedom shrinking

Recent censorship highlights the continuing pressure on media freedom and independent journalism in the country.

PSM Weekly | 1 – 7 February 2023

Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.

TVO joins the Public Media Alliance

The Canadian regional broadcaster, TVO, is the latest public media orgnisation to join the Public Media Alliance.

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.

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.

PSM Weekly | 25 – 31 January 2023

Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.

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.

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.

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.