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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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Journalism & News,Principles & Values
Far-Right Nationalism and Populism in Europe: Assaults on Press Freedom
May 2017
New research from the University of Vienna shows that growing support for far-right groups and populist politicians poses a severe threat to journalism across Europe.
Funding,Journalism & News,Policy,Principles & Values
The Future of Public Service Broadcasting in Bosnia and Herzegovina
June 2017
This working paper explores the future of public service broadcasting (PSB) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in light of the complex situation it is currently facing.
Funding,Policy,Principles & Values
The Future of Public Service Broadcasting in Serbia
May 2017
This paper examines the status, role, and main challenges of the reform of the public service broadcasting (PSB) in Serbia.
Journalism & News,Principles & Values
Public Television in Latin America: Changing to the Digital Age
2017
This research article tracks the history of public television in Latin America and its journey towards digital transition.
Journalism & News,Principles & Values
Obeying His Masters’ Voices
2016
This chapter focusses on governance issues within public media organisations, particularly the juggling act of “guarding editorial independence and securing accountability”.
Gendering War & Peace Reporting
2016
Nordicom publication exploring analytic approaches to how traditional war journalism is gendered.
Journalism & News,Policy,Principles & Values
A comparative analysis of media freedom & pluralism in the EU member states
2016
European Parliament policy brief arguing that democratic processes in several EU countries are suffering from systemic failure, with the result that the basic conditions of media pluralism are not present.
Audiences,Journalism & News,Policy,Principles & Values
What we do and do not know about the impact of public service media
2016
New RSJI report on the impacts of public service media.
Innovation & Tech,Journalism & News
Making Sense of Innovation
2016
Process, product, and storytelling innovation in public service broadcasting organisations.
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.
Funding,Principles & Values,DE&I
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.
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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