RISJ: Analysis of The Relation Between & Impact of Public Service Media & Private Media

Fascinating new report by the RISJ with a particular focus on the relations between public and private media in Denmark.

PTS Taiwan

Public Television Service, Taiwan

Since 1998, a central role of Taiwan's Public Television Service (PTS) has been to promote democratic value, minority interests, culture and voices that were once unheard under martial law.

PBS TechCon 2017: Call for Proposals

DEADLINE APPORACHING: 14 October 2016

Nordicom: Blurring the Lines

New anthology from Nordicom about market-driven and democracy-driven freedom of expression

Former EBC President discusses the status of public media in Brazil

With the recent changes in government, public service media in Brazil is constantly under pressure.

France

French public media needs “thorough review”

Public media in France has been under critique as an industry that is losing sight of one of its core missions: democratising access to culture.

Foreign journalists in Maldives to require background checks

Media professionals will be now face restrictions to work in the Maldives, as the government has now disposed new immigration rules.

Provisional measure threatens autonomy of Brazil’s public broadcaster

The newly confirmed Brazilian government has recently proposed a measure that would change the structure and the autonomy of the public broadcaster.

media freedom

Nigerian public media should be independent to promote democracy

Attahiru Jega, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), talked about the current state of public broadcasting in Nigeria, calling for structural changes.

Colleagues help fellow public broadcasters after floods in Louisiana

After the destructive flooding that afflicted Louisiana early this month, public media professionals are helping their colleagues.