Featured Reports
19th July 2022
BBC funding: household levy put forward
The UK’s House of Lords has suggested replacing the licence fee with a household levy which would not be dependent on owning a television.
19th July 2022
SVT Sport: A world leader in equal sports coverage
SVT has pioneered award-winning coverage of women’s sport and is aiming to become one of the first sports journalism gender-equal workforces.
15th July 2022
BBC sets out plans for new TV news channel to launch in 2023
The public broadcaster's planned new TV news channel forms part of its digital-first plan announced earlier this year.
Recent News
21st October 2016
New Zealand broadcasters face public funding shake-up
New Zealand on Air (NZOA), the body that provides funding for local television, radio and music programming, may soon change the way they distribute their money.
20th October 2016
NPR ratings show strength of US public radio
Substantial growth in audience figures attributed to “first rate journalism”, much improved user platforms and high quality storytelling.
19th October 2016
Change on the cards for PSM funding in Ireland
Funding to be examined by Oireachtas Communications Committee as call emerges to include newspapers in reform process.
18th October 2016
SABC board members will have to resign
After the recent resignations of two of the South African broadcaster’s board members, Parliament has now requested the dismissal of the remaining representatives.
18th October 2016
French government offers funding to public radio
The French government has announced it will give funds to Radio France to help it settle old debts.
17th October 2016
Public Television Service, Taiwan
Since 1998, a central role of Taiwan's Public Television Service (PTS) has been to promote democratic value, minority interests, culture and voices that were once unheard under martial law.
14th October 2016
300 jobs cut in BBC restructure
The proposed cuts focus on in-house programme-makers as the broadcaster pushes through with the commercialisation of its production division, BBC Studios.
12th October 2016
Further measures undermine public media in Brazil
The government’s decision to wipe out the EBC Board of Trustees further derails the public broadcaster's freedom and independence.
11th October 2016
PSM Weekly | 5-11 Oct 2016
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
10th October 2016
Public Media Alliance sparks dialogue on trust in the media
Last month, Craig Hammer opened the Public Media Alliance (PMA) global conference in Montreal with a speech about the importance of public media in our world.