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 ditches labels but concerns remain
Twitter removed labels for both independent and state-controlled public broadcasters, raising further concern about disinformation.
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?
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.
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 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.
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: 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.