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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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Rethinking Public Service Broadcasting’s Place in International Media Development
2016
This report re-evaluates the role of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the current, international media climate and what its future may hold.
Public Service Media & Digital Innovation: The Small Nation Experience
2018
This chapter from Nordicom's 2018 publication Public Service Media in the Networked Society, emphasises the role of public media in providing minority language services in small nation states.
Getting the Message Across
2018
Reporting on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Handbook for Journalists
Journalism, ‘Fake News’ and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training
November 2018
This recent publication explores the key feature of journalism and seeks to guide readers on how to best navigate the news environment and fight against misinformation.
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
Journalism & News,Principles & Values
Humanitarian Journalism
The Humanitarian Journalism project is seeking to better understand how the news media report on humanitarian crises and what shapes their coverage.
Journalism & News,Policy,Principles & Values
PSM research websites
Are you interested in public service media (PSM) research? Are you struggling to find specific research articles related to contemporary PSM around the world?
Journalism & News,Principles & Values
Trust in Ethical Journalism – The Key to Media Futures
April 2018
The latest 'Ethics in the News' report from the Ethical Journalism Network explores how the communications revolution is continuing to pose more questions than answers over a public crisis of confidence, both in democracy and in sources of public information.
A Future for Public Service Television
April 2018
This volume examines not only the unexpected resilience of TV as cultural pastime and aesthetic practice but also the prospects for public service television in a digital, multichannel ecology.
Hate speech: What it is and how to contrast it?
January 2018
This special dossier compiled by Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa is the third in in a series of thematic publications exploring hate speech and its implications for media freedom in Europe.
Measuring the reach of “fake news” and online disinformation in Europe.
January 2018
Comprehensive factsheet highlighting top-level usage statistics for the most popular sites that independent fact-checkers and other observers have identified as publishers of false news and online disinformation.
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.
Pathways to Media Reform in Sub‑Saharan Africa: Reflections from a Regional Consultation
December 2017
This report lays out a vision for how the continuing struggle for vibrant, independent, and plural media systems in the region might more effectively bolster efforts of democratic revitalization.
Journalism & News,Principles & Values
In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
August 2017
This brilliant collection of essays explores media capture and the multifaceted threats facing independent journalism, beyond those posed by direct state control.
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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