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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.


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Nation Binding: How Public Service Broadcasting Mitigates Political Selective Exposure

2016
Is there a media system that promotes less political selective exposure? This article explores this question within the context of the US and Dutch media landscape.

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Ensuring public service news provision in the era of networked communications

2016
This article analyses the economic viability of news production in the two main categories of media organisations, legacy media and digital native media, with a focus on USA and Europe.

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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”?

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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.

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The Legitimacy of Public Service Broadcasting in the 21st Century

2014
An examination of the debates surrounding the future of public service broadcasting in Norway and Sweden in the 2000s.

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PSM’s Role in the Development of Media Technology and Applications

2014
Triggered by the pressures of globalization, the processes of media convergence have split into a two-way communication process consisting of both convergent and-divergent axes.

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The Export of US Infotainment

2014
What is the unstated line that public service networks will not cross when attempting to compete with commercial networks in terms of popular culture?

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Auntie Knows Best?

2013
PSBs are a central part of national news media landscapes. In many countries, PSBs are the first choice of citizens when it comes to news providers. And in perhaps more countries still, PSBs are thought of as specialists in provision of hard news.

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Ripe 2013: The Value of Public Service Media

2013
The sixth publication in the series of RIPE Readers on PSM published by NORDICOM

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Mapping Digital Media: News and New Media in Central Africa

2012
In this report, Marie-Soleil Frère surveys the news landscapes of DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda. Marshalling an impressive range of data, she examines patterns of production and consumption, the often grim realities of law and regulation, the embryonic state of media policy, the role of donors, and the positive impact of online platforms.

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The Public Sphere, Social Networks and Public Service Media

2011
This article argues that open-platform Public Service Media are capable of developing more comprehensive and inclusive social frameworks than online providers.

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Riding the Wave

2009
Grounded in a series of industry interviews taken from across six case studies and referencing recent literature and policy documents, this article analyses the impact of public broadcasting’s digital rebirth on traditional public service principles.

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Beyond Broadcasting: The future of state owned broadcasters in Southern Africa

2009
This recommended article, supported by FesMedia Africa, conveys the complicated changes facing state-owned broadcasters in Southern Africa.

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Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy

2009
This article addresses the implications of the movement towards entertainment-centred, market-driven media by comparing what is reported and what the public knows in four countries with different media systems.

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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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