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Welcome to our shared public media research and resource page in collaboration with IAPMR and MJRC
Here you will find a broad selection of recommended journals, reports, websites and guides related to the core values of public service media, as well as specially-commissioned Research Insights – blogs, op-eds, pieces, written by leading researchers and academics on a chosen subject.
Topics include best practices, country reports and the mounting challenges faced by PSM worldwide such as media capture, diminishing budgets and media convergence.
The resources below have been curated by the Public Media Alliance in collaboration with the International Association of Public Media Researchers (IAPMR) and the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC). You can find out more about our collaborators at the bottom of the page.
Is there something we have missed? Please get in touch, we would be pleased to review it here. Also see the Our Publications section for our own reports and handbooks as well as the InnoPSM website. We also keep track of research news and calls for papers.
Most of the following resources are open-source but some contain links to articles that require an institutional log-in to view. Please refer to your University, institution or employer if this is the case.
Research Insights
A collection of articles written by leading researchers & academics from around the world, especially commissioned for PMA and IAPMR.
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Research & Resources
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Audiences,Journalism & News,Principles & Values
The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during Covid-19
2023
The article analyses the shift in willingness to pay (WTP) for PSM before and after the first Covid-19 outbreak in Japan.
How Business Can Support a Healthy Infosphere
2023
The report examines why businesses should care about independent media and how they benefit from independent media.
Principles & Values,Production,DE&I
Integrating Ethnic Content into Public Service Broadcasting
2023
When working towards a democracy, it is important that ethnic content can be integrated into public service broadcasting (PSB).
Audiences,Policy,Principles & Values
What is life like without the BBC?
2022
The BBC commissioned this study to help it understand better the value that it delivers to UK households and how this could be improved.
Between the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Power
2022
This report brings together multiple studies from academics across Europe on the theme: "Between the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Power".
Public Service Media and Public Funding
2023
Recent public debates in several European countries have shown that public service medias’ public funding has become a controversial topic.
Innovation & Tech,Principles & Values
How Do Public Service Media Innovate?
2021
The authors explore to what extent public media rely on institutional links and tight coupling with the environment to develop new products.
Distilling the value of public service media
2022
This paper shows the problem of proposing one definition of public value, given the diversity of the spaces in which public media operate.
Campaigns against PSM: Hot air or existential threat?
2022
This paper examines how populist campaigns have threatened PSM and proposes some potential responses to these challenges
Are public service media distinctive from the market?
2022
This study assesses whether public service media supply a distinctive and informative news service compared to market-led media.
Public Service Broadcasting in the Online TV Environment
2022
Focusing on BBC iPlayer, this article assesses key challenges that public service broadcasting (PSB) faces in the era of online TV.
Public service media in the age of SVoDs
2021
Netflix and other SVoDs are disrupting long-established arrangements in national television systems around the world.
The Public Service Approach to Recommender Systems
2022
Online media consumption has been radically transformed by how media companies algorithmically recommend content to their users.
Innovation & Tech,Principles & Values
What are the ethical concerns behind ‘recommendations’?
2022
As PSM organisations now match other media platforms and content providers in offering recommendations, what are the ethical concerns they need to consider?
State Media Monitor: The world’s state media database
2022
The CMDS has made available its global database of state-administered media organisations, with information on how they are funded, managed and editorially controlled.
Our Partners
We are pleased to partner with the IAPMR and MJRC for this resource
IAPMR
The International Association of Public Media Researchers (IAPMR) brings together quality academic and industrial research from different disciplines. We support the continual evolution of public service media by aggregating theory and practice. We look critically from industrial, production, audience, technological, economic and societal perspectives. We run conferences, produce publications and communicate knowledge to academia, industry, governments, and publics.
MJRC
The Media and Journalism Research Center is an independent media research and policy think tank that seeks to improve the quality of media policymaking and the state of independent media and journalism through research, knowledge sharing and financial support. MJRC continues the work of the Center for Media, Data & Society (CMDS), which until October 2022 operated as a unit of Central European University (CEU).
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