The latest events related to the world of public service media
From conferences to symposiums and launch dates, we strive to highlight a wide range of international public service media events.
PMA events
Events being hosted by PMA, or events which we are partnering on!
Radiodays Asia 2025
The Public Media Alliance is once again partnering for Radiodays Asia 2025 conference which this year will be taking place in Indonesia.
Radiodays Asia 2025
Radiodays Asia is the international meeting point for the radio, audio and podcast industry in the Asia-Pacific. Its purpose is sharing experiences and learning about international media trends, new technology, content development and business opportunities.
The Public Media Alliance is delighted to offer our members exclusive discounts for the conference.
Date: 1-3 September 2025
Where: Jakarta, Indonesia
PSM Unpacked [Recurring]
The challenges facing public service media are not only growing but are also shared more widely than ever before. From funding to journalist safety, this series of roundtable forums is designed for PMA members to discuss these challenges and also share innovations, successes and solutions.
Each session, a small group of employees at PMA member organisations gather to informally exchange knowledge and best practices, and discuss how their organisations manage operations across different subject areas.
The sessions are organised on a regular basis, and bring together people in similar positions at like-minded organisations. They are also good networking opportunities, so staff can meet and speak with their global peers.
Our next roundtable will be: “How PSM supports minority languages”
Date: July 2025
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Upcoming events related to public service media
MediaStrong 2025
Date: 2 July 2025
Venue: London, UK
The MediaStrong symposium is back.
Our third event brings together journalists and news professionals, renowned mental health specialists, expert academics, and campaigners for the protection of journalists. This year’s event will build on the success of MediaStrong 2024 to once again provide a safe space for journalists to gather and learn about the latest research as well as how to protect their mental health – both in the field and in the newsroom.
Speakers and contributors at MediaStrong 2025 will paint a picture of today’s newsroom and the challenges facing journalists and media workers. But it will also look to solutions and best practices for news organisations to better support their staff.
Presentations and insights from journalists, newsroom leaders, mental health specialists and academics will explore how a greater awareness of the impact of trauma enables us to tell better informed and more accurate stories; to be sensitive to the people we report on; and to establish good mental health practices that allow journalists, media workers and the industry as a whole to thrive.
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South Asia News Media Festival
Date: 7-10 July 2025
Venue: Mumbai, India
The INMA South Asia News Media Festival is association’s signature regional news media conference and study tour for leaders and news media executives looking to benchmark against the best, gain practical insights and learn from successful strategies in a fast-changing market. Join us for the South Asia News Media Festival as we surface best practices most relevant to the news media ecosystem.
At the conference, dive into the implications of the changing advertising landscape vis-a-vis content, consumer, and tech. How are publishers and media agencies approaching media buying, and what does this mean for reach and revenue? What is the right conflux of content, product, and tech to serve audiences? What are the alternative sources of revenue and emerging business models?
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Public Media Development and Marketing Conference 2025
Date: 7-10 July 2025
Venue: Philadelphia, USA
The public media landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. Broadcast audiences are shifting, and our long-term success hinges on our ability to adapt and expand audiences.
PMDMC is your catalyst for transformation. It’s the must-attend conference for public media leaders and revenue-generating professionals from organizations of all sizes. This is where we make plans that drive industry innovation and secure a sustainable future for our vital public service.
PMDMC is more than just a conference, it’s a community. You’ll build relationships with colleagues from public media and beyond to share best practices and forge valuable connections you can draw from throughout the year.
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Festival International de Journalisme
Date: 11 – 13 July 2025
Venue: Couthures-sur-Garonne, France
As it does every year, the village of Couthures-sur-Garonne will be transformed into a veritable open-air forum where journalists and newsmakers will be waiting to debate and exchange ideas in a unique atmosphere that is both serious and friendly. 1,1,000 festival-goers are expected to attend the 2025 event.
This year’s debates will focus on seven themes:
- Saving the Ocean
- Should we change the Republic?
- Do lobbies manipulate information?
- Trump’s crusade against freedom of information
- Militant journalism – journalism of opinion: how far should you go?
- Rurality, opportunity or curse?
- World order turned upside down by Hurricane Trump
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Global Investigative Journalism Conference Heads to Malaysia in 2025
Date: 29 July 2025
Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the fourth quarter of next year.
The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) is excited to partner with Malaysiakini as a local co-host for GIJC25. Malaysiakini is an independent online news outlet created in 1999, that has been recognized both locally and internationally for its contributions to the media landscape, commitment to press freedom, and in-depth reporting.
As in previous years, GIJC25 will feature a robust fellowship program to bring journalists from the Global South and other regions to the conference. Donors and co-sponsors who want to support this high-impact event can contact the organizers at hello@gijn.org. Subscribe to GIJN’s bulletin to get the latest updates on registration, fellowships, call for session proposals, and more.
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Africa News Media Summit
Date: 7-8 August 2025
Join us for this two-day virtual summit to learn how African news publishers continue to grow audience, revenue, and brand as we make the difficult transition from print to digital. Over two days and nearly eight hours of programming, hear directly from peers throughout Africa on their best practices in the face of societal, technological and business challenges. INMA will focus African participants on the business of news media: audience development, advertising, the smart use of data and insights, and emerging digital models that work for emerging markets.
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Broadcast Operations Conference 2025
Date: 11 August 2025
Venue: Prague, Czech Rrepublic
Get ready to connect with industry experts, explore the latest trends in broadcasting, and take part in interactive workshops. We’ve lined up an impressive roster of speakers and panelists, including:
Saleha Williams (CEO of the IABM)
Vladimír Pořízek (CFO, CCO, COO of PRIMA TV)
Zoran Jankovič (Group CTIO of CME)
Mihai Moga (System Integrator, Station Infrastructure Designer)
Jiří Gabriel (COO of MISTV)
After the conference, you’re invited to celebrate MISTV’s 30th anniversary, starting at 18:00, for an evening of entertainment, great food, and networking in a more relaxed setting.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage, learn, and celebrate with the best in the industry!
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NordMedia25
Date: 13-15 August 2025
Venue: Odense, Denmark
NordMedia is a biennial conference for Nordic media and communication researchers organized by the national Nordic media researcher associations together with Nordicom. It was organized in 1973 for the first time.
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INMA Media Innovation Week
Date: 22-26 September 2025
Venue: Dublin, Ireland
INMA’s Media Innovation Week brings together the very best of European best practices to grow audience, revenue, and brand to support great journalism – with a special spotlight on the Irish news industry. For the first time, Media Innovation Week adds a new component: a Newsroom Transformation Hub focused on repositioning the beating heart of news companies for the digital landscape.
Punctuate your Media Innovation Week experience with a reception at the National Gallery of Ireland, a soiree at the famous Guinness Storehouse, and private dinners with colleagues in an unforgettable Irish setting.
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Newsroom Transformation Masterclass
Date: 9-16 October 2025
What exactly is newsroom transformation? And how will we know when we have “transformed”?
In this INMA Newsroom Transformation Master Class we will dive into metrics and KPIs that today’s journalists must know if news brands are to deliver impact and influence in a fast-changing world.
We will look at establishing newsroom-wide KPIs, creating a data-fluent newsroom culture, understanding what data can and can’t tell us, and using data to guide decisions on what to stop doing.
Join some of the most experienced and innovative working journalists and news leaders in the world as they share what we still need to do to accelerate newsroom transformation and face multiple challenges.
In three modules, you’ll get a mini-MBA in newsroom management and come away with ideas and tools you can apply tomorrow to the challenges you face today.
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Media Tech and AI Conference
Date: 20-21 October 2025
Venue: San Francisco, USA
Immerse yourself in the latest trends in technology and consumer behaviour shifts at the inaugural INMA Media Tech and AI Conference in San Francisco. With a fast-paced rhythm inspired by the innovation culture of Silicon Valley, this event dives deep into the rapid technological changes shaping the news media industry, offering unparalleled insights and discussions. With AI transforming consumers’ lives and reshaping businesses, the conference will explore its dramatic impact through expert-led sessions, quick-fire presentations, and dynamic panels designed to keep up with the speed of change. Highlights will include how the world’s largest innovation ecosystem is evolving, the AI tools shaping news media, shifts in consumer habits, the real business implications of AI advancements, storytelling strategies within emerging technologies, the rise of answer engines and their impact on content discovery, and strategies for maximising attribution.
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IPI 75th Anniversary World Congress in Vienna in 2025
Date: 23-25 October 2025
Venue: Vienna
The 2025 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival will bring together the world’s leading journalists, editors, and media leaders at the historic Schönbrunn Orangery and Apothekertrakt in Vienna, Austria, from October 23 to 25, 2025. This landmark Congress will also mark IPI’s 75th anniversary.
Through interactive panels, workshops, and hands-on sessions with global experts, discussions at the 2025 IPI World Congress will address critical challenges such as journalist safety in high-risk environments, the worldwide threat to journalism from growing authoritarianism, and ensuring media sustainability through innovative business models.
A key feature of the event will be the Media Innovation Festival, which will spotlight a pioneering, global group of digital native media startups and innovators. This festival will provide participants with a unique platform to explore tools and opportunities in business and editorial strategy that shape the future of journalism, focusing on innovation’s role in enhancing the sustainability of media organizations.
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17th Dubrovnik Media Days
Date: 25 October 2025
Venue: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Generative AI: Transforming Journalism, Strategic Communication, and Education
International Scientific Conference “Dubrovnik Media Days”:
University of Dubrovnik’s Faculty of Media and Public Relations in cooperation with the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom of the European University Institute and Croatian Academy of Science and Arts
This event is conceived as a two-day International Scientific Conference followed by a one-day Policy Lab, seeking to build synergies and exchange between academia, experts, regulators, and policy-makers. The scientific conference aims to bring together emerging and senior scholars from various disciplines and interests in the integrity of the information sphere, democracy, media and journalism, competition and antitrust, copyright, education, and regulation. Accepted papers and extended abstracts (developed into papers) will be considered for publication in a special issue of the academic journal Media Studies.
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2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference
Date: 20-24 November 2025
Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world’s largest international gathering of investigative journalists. The conference features training on the latest tools and techniques, cutting-edge workshops, and extensive networking and brainstorming sessions. In 2025, the conference will be held for the first time in Asia — in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Last Updated: 22 May 2025
Previous Events
Global Media Forum: Reaching and reflecting Indigenous Peoples
Read about our panel at this year's DW Global Media Forum on how public media are reaching and reflecting Indigenous Peoples.
MediaStrong 2025: Building healthier newsrooms
The 3rd edition of the MediaStrong symposium for journalists’ mental health explored projects that are being implemented in major newsrooms.
PSM Unpacked | Disaster preparedness
Our latest PSM Unpacked roundtable event explored public service media's responsibility in disaster preparedness.
PMA attends UNESCO Meeting on Indigenous Peoples and the Media
PMA was at the UNESCO headquarters for an event working to develop proposals for advancing Indigenous media.
Indigenous stories & language revitalization focus of PBI first day
PBI 2024 began with a focus on amplifying Indigenous stories, exploring how PSM can better serve Indigenous communities.
PSM Unpacked | Covering elections for young audience
Our global membership recently joined our PSM Unpacked roundtable to discuss the coverage of elections for a young audience.
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Catch up with our recent events
DIGITAL VIOLENCE | Issues & challenges for women in Haiti (French)
As a prelude to International Women’s Day 2022, PMA and its partners PANOS Caribbean, UNESCO Haiti, and Solidarite des femmes haitiennes journalistes (SOFEHJ) organised an event in Haiti on digital safety for female journalists.
The impacts of COVID-19 on the Southeast Asian media landscape
On Thursday 20th January, the Public Media Alliance (PMA), in partnership with the Asia Democracy Network (ADN) and with support from UNESCO Bangkok, launched a report exploring the state of media freedom, media business viability and journalist safety in ten countries in Southeast Asia during the COVID-19 crisis, and an accompanying draft Media Recovery Plan. We were joined by media stakeholders from across the region and the project’s country experts to share their insights on the challenges and threats facing journalists and media workers.
Radiodays Asia 2021
Talking COVID – The personal Experience
Catch up with PMA’s session from this year’s Radiodays Asia, where we spoke to journalists and radio producers about their experiences during the pandemic and discussed the innovations and changes in the way we work that are here to stay.
Watch the sessions again on Radioday’s Catch Up platform.
Welcoming New Neighbours: How public media works for refugees and asylum seekers
As publicly funded organisations, public media must be representative of and accessible to all groups within society. This includes welcoming new residents, such as refugees and asylum seekers, as they integrate into new environments.
Catchup with the Public Media Alliance’s special online event as part of Refugee Week, exploring how public broadcasters are covering the lives of refugees and asylum seekers as they make new homes here in the UK.
If you have any suggestions for events related to the world of public service media please email PMA at editor@publicmediaalliance.org.