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PSM Weekly | 25 – 31 January 2023

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


Slovak public broadcaster building

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.


RNZ and TVNZ buildings

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


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.……

Journalists targeted amid Hong Kong protests

Violence escalates and journalist safety declines in Hong Kong as protests enter their fifth month.

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.

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…

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…

PSM Weekly | 2 October – 8 October 2019

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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…