Featured Reports


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.


Recent News


Journalists injured covering Catalonia protests

Serious concern as accounts of violence against journalists grow in Catalonia during protests.

Focus on PSM | The challenges facing the BBC

Concerns over transparency, relevance, governance and its funding model are just some of the issues that the public broadcaster has been grappling with.

New conditions for Swedish public media hammered out in parliament

Sweden’s Riksdag votes in favour of government bill to strengthen local journalism and allow public broadcasters to expand their online footprint, but there’s a caveat.

Public broadcasters and youth media literacy

Effective democracy relies on citizen’s access to trustworthy information. But it also requires citizens to be able to make critical decisions about the sources of that information and whether it is…

Public broadcasters around the world collaborate to support media literacy

To mark Global Media and Information Literacy Week, national public broadcasters the ABC, CBC/Radio-Canada and PBS have come together to call for greater media literacy in the digital age.

Escalating violence towards journalists in Haiti

On October 10, radio journalist Néhémie Joseph was found dead in his car in the Mirebalais area, the sixth killing of a journalist in Haiti in 19 years.

PSM Weekly | 16 October – 22 October 2019

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

Insight | The struggle for media pluralism

In this op-ed, RNZ CEO Paul Thompson highlights the struggle for pluralism in New Zealand and the need for strong independent public media.

NBC defends editorial independence following SWAPO complaint

Namibian public broadcaster defends editorial independence and restores radio services amidst financial crisis. 

PSM Weekly | 9 October – 15 October 2019

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

Poland’s election without public media

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party has been voted in for a second term this week. Yet despite Poland being a representative democracy, the party’s strategy to “repolonise” and control the media is…