SABC-branded satellite against a blue sky.

SABC: New board appointed

South Africa's President has finally appointed 12 individuals to the new board of the SABC, six months after the old board disbanded.

Twitter HQ campus in downtown San Francisco.

Twitter ditches labels but concerns remain

Twitter removed labels for both independent and state-controlled public broadcasters, raising further concern about disinformation.

New Zealand's broadcasting minister, Willie Jackson, speaking to reporters.

New Zealand: What’s the government’s post-merger media plan?

After New Zealand's government decided to scrap combining the radio and TV public broadcasters, what is their post-merger policy for PSM?

Telecommunications towers

PSM Weekly | 19 – 25 April 2023

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

Channels TV fined by NBC

A number of civil society groups have sued the Nigerian broadcast regulator after Channels TV was fined N5 million.

Global Task Force

GTF objects to Twitter’s public media labels

The Global Task Force objects to ABC, CBC/Radio-Canada, KBS and RNZ being designated by Twitter as “Government-funded Media”.

PSM threaten to leave Twitter

Independent public service media have threatened to leave the social media network, Twitter, due to inaccurate classification.

Twitter PBS

Twitter is damaging trust in PSM

The application of inaccurate and misleading labels to independent public media by Twitter has the potential to damage public trust in these organisations.

RTV Slovenia

Strikes at RTV SLO amid wider instability

A strike, an investigation into labour violations, and calls for the board to resign has seen continued instability at RTV Slovenia.

CBC Corner on Ipad

CBC Corner: a digital portal for Canadian libraries

CBC Corner is a new digital portal – home to a collection of CBC content and resources – accessible for library users across Canada.