Featured Reports


Nigeria Election: Threats, sanctions, and disinformation

In the run up to the 2023 presidential election, journalists in Nigeria had already started to highlight safety concerns to the CPJ.


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Pakistan: Regulator exerting greater control

There has been an alarming spate of attacks on media freedom and freedom of expression driven by the country’s regulator.


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PSM Weekly | 8 – 14 March 2023

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


Recent News


Covid-19 and public media: Adaptation and contingencies

Many of us are having to rapidly re-adjust our personal and professional lifestyles to a world that quite suddenly feels very different. And such change makes no exception for public media.

Global Call Out: An Unprecedented Time

This week's PMA Global Call Out sees us all working in new ways. Many of us are now working from home in a world that quite suddenly feels very different. Yet the challenges facing media freedom…

Letter: PMA calls on the government of Trinidad & Tobago to respect media freedom

Our letter to Trinidad & Tobago's High Commission in London calling on the country's government to respect media freedom in the wake of the police search of the Trinidad Express newspaper. 

PMA Global Grants Postponed

It is with a heavy heart that the Public Media Alliance has decided to postpone this year's PMA Global Grants.

PMA condemns police search of the Trinidad Express

On Wednesday 11 March, seven members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service invaded the offices of the Trinidad Express newspaper with a warrant to search the premises.

PSM Weekly | 11 – 17 March 2020

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

Public media coverage of coronavirus

Public service media organisations are mandated to provide essential and, at times, life-saving information during crises and emergencies.  But what steps are organisations taking to best cover the…

Women in media: Balance the imbalance!

The Public Media Alliance is proud to support a joint statement issued by International Media Support (IMS) urging media leaders and journalists to take action against the gender inequality in the…

PSM Weekly | 4 – 10 March 2020

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

Focus on PSM | Ghana

As the government looks set to reform aspects of Ghana’s media landscape, we take a look at the key issues impacting media freedom and the country’s public broadcaster.

What would be lost if Trump’s plans for public media succeed?

For the fourth year in a row President Trump has proposed cutting all federal funding for public service media. What would US citizens lose if public media disappears?