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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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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?
Mutual Aid and the “Messy Middle”: pushing public radio toward antiracism
September 2021
This report by the Tow Center explores how public radio stations in the US are adopting initiatives to improve their diversity.
Innovation & Tech,Principles & Values
Organisational Culture of Public Service Media: People, values, processes
2019
In 2015-2019 Dr Michał Głowacki and Professor Lizzie Jackson investigated the internal organisational cultures of ten successful high technology clusters in North America and Europe to identify strategies to support the evolution of Public Service Media worldwide. Read their project report.
Funding,Innovation & Tech,Policy
Media Influence Matrix
2017
Launched in 2017, the CMDS project maps and assesses "the state of journalism on a country-by-country basis." Country reports include articles, analytical papers and data sets that aim to answer questions on regulation, funding and technology.
The Next Newsroom
2019
This report explores the real strategic opportunities from hype, and gives 30 concrete examples of successful projects and toolboxes and recommendations for news organisations.
Innovation & Tech,Journalism & News,Principles & Values
The Journalism AI
2019
The Journalism AI report is based on a survey of 71 news organisations in 32 different countries regarding artificial intelligence and associated technologies. A wide range of journalists working with AI answered questions about their understanding of AI, how it was used in their newsrooms, and their views on the wider potential and risks for the news industry.
Future and Emerging Technologies for the Media Sector
2019
This report by MediaRoad's Policy Hub analyses the potential impact of future and emerging technologies on the media sector
Innovation & Tech,Journalism & News
First Draft’s Essential Guide to Responsible Reporting in an Age of Information Disorder
2019
This guide helps to spark discussions on best editorial practice in approaching and covering issues such as terrorism, conspiracy theories, manipulated content in an age of technological innovations and information disorder.
Innovation & Tech,Journalism & News,Principles & Values
RISJ Digital News Report 2018
June 2018
This year's edition of the ever comprehensive Reuters Institute Digital News Report highlights a fall in the use of social media for news in a number of key markets
Innovation & Tech,Principles & Values
Public service media, universality and personalisation through algorithms: Mapping strategies and exploring dilemmas
2017
This contribution compares personalisation strategies of public service media (PSM) and how these are reconciled with PSM’s core values, especially universality.
Innovation & Tech,Journalism & News
Making Sense of Innovation
2016
Process, product, and storytelling innovation in public service broadcasting organisations.
Innovation & Tech,Principles & Values
Public Service Media in the Age of Digital Networks
2016
This article addresses the question as to whether public service media is still relevant in the “age of the internet and digital networks”?
Innovation as the Key for the Future of Public Service Media
2016
This chapter looks at the effects of digitisation in the production and consumption of public media, and the changing needs for news in society.
Innovation & Tech,Journalism & News,Principles & Values
Making Public Television Social? Public Service Broadcasting and the Challenges of Social Media
2015
This article investigates how the rise of social media affects European public service broadcasting, particularly in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands.
Throwing the Switch
2015
With 2015 being the deadline for many countries to make the switch from analogue broadcasting to digital, the CIMA has produced this report as an update to the progress of transition.
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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