Featured Reports
31st January 2023
PSM Weekly | 25 – 31 January 2023
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
30th January 2023
Slovakia: Licence fee faces possible abolition
Slovak public broadcaster RTVS’s licence fee structure faces axing, with plans to suspend the funding model from July 2023 up in the air.
30th January 2023
NZ: New public media in doubt
There are fears that the creation of a new public media entity is in doubt after the resignation of Jacinda Ardern.
Recent News
14th October 2019
SBS delivers new mobile-first website in 68 languages
Australia and the world's "most linguistically diverse public broadcaster", SBS, has launched an innovative new mobile-first website to improve accessibility and engagement with in-language content.……
11th October 2019
Journalists targeted amid Hong Kong protests
Violence escalates and journalist safety declines in Hong Kong as protests enter their fifth month.
11th October 2019
Uncertainty continues for RTVE
Ongoing disagreement over working hours and wages, a long-awaited public tender and centralisation concerns continue to burden Spain’s national public broadcaster.
9th October 2019
UPDATE | Financial crisis at NBC
Following the announcement from the NBC’s board that austerity measures are underway, which includes a possible retrenchment of some of the public broacaster’s workforce, employees took to staging a…
8th October 2019
Financial crisis at NBC
The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation is in the midst of a financial crisis, with significant programming and job cuts on the cards. With elections just over a month away, how will the public…
8th October 2019
PSM Weekly | 2 October – 8 October 2019
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
7th October 2019
Social Media Guidelines | For media professionals & journalists in Southern Africa
Read our latest guidelines developed collaboratively with journalists and media professionals from across Southern Africa.
10th September 2019
Global Call Out
Today the Public Media Alliance, representing 88 public media organisations worldwide, issued a “Global Call Out” in support of the core values of public service media.
4th October 2019
CfP | RIPE@2020
Public service media has never before had to prove its value within and for society, particularly with an increasingly changing media landscape as well as evolving types of society.
3rd October 2019
New directive offers limited protections for journalists and whistleblowers in Australia
New press freedom ‘safeguard’ could offer more protection following June raids on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and News Corp journalist, but does it go far enough?
1st October 2019
BBC Director General reverses decision on complaint against presenter
The BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit last week ruled that BBC presenter, Naga Munchetty, breached editorial guidelines on impartiality for commenting on racist remarks made by President Trump in a…