Brazil: Public media privatisation accelerates as censorship grows
Reports of heightened censorship and persecution persist at EBC, even as the Brazilian broadcaster faces an “accelerated” privatisation.
PSM Weekly | 30 June – 6 July 2021
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
Global Task Force statement in support of public media in Slovenia
The Global Task Force for public media is deeply concerned by further evidence of sustained and destabilising pressure on public media in Slovenia.
New public media entity not just about ‘smashing’ RNZ and TVNZ together
Work on a new public media entity continues at pace, but the head of the governance group says it's not about "smashing" RNZ and TVNZ together.
Slovenian government eroding media freedom as it takes over EU Presidency
A coalition of press freedom organisations and journalism groups warn in a new report about increasing efforts deployed by the Slovenian government to undermine critical media.
Projet : Protéger les journalistes en Haïti et lutter contre la désinformation et la mésinformation pendant une pandémie
Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer notre prochain projet de renforcement des capacités des journalistes en Haïti.
PSM Weekly | 23 – 29 June 2021
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
Focus on PSM: Germany
From funding and political pressures to journalist safety, public media in Germany faces an array of challenges. Read our latest update.
What the public stand to lose if Channel 4 is privatised
The UK’s public media landscape has faced significant turbulence under the current government, but a proposal to privatise Channel 4 could cause irreversible damage.
ARD and ZDF are expanding their media libraries into a common streaming network
Press Release: The ARD and ZDF are developing a joint streaming network of their media libraries. In the future, it will allow users to find ZDF content in the ARD Mediathek and vice versa.