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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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Coronavirus: Resources & best practices
Essential resources for sourcing and reporting news about the coronavirus pandemic
Research & Resources
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Audiences,Funding,Principles & Values
Democracy and Public Service Broadcasting
2023
This EBU report offers broadcasters a way to respond to challenges when measuring the role of PSM as a reliable and stable source of information.
Shifting TV Audience Expectations in the UK during Covid-19
2023
This paper examines how the growth of subscription video on demand might alter the cultural meanings people attach to television.
Audiences,Innovation & Tech,Journalism & News
News Personalisation and Public Service Media: The Audience Perspective
2023
This research looks at audience expectations and concerns about news content curated using artificial intelligence.
Audiences,Innovation & Tech,Policy,Principles & Values,Production
Traditional broadcasting features in VoD services
2023
This study shows how traditional broadcasting theories are compatible with the increasingly trending digital platforms and on-demand services.
Audiences,Innovation & Tech,Policy,Production
Nordic countries’ digital strategies and third-party platforms
2023
The research examined four Nordic PSM who expressed their doubts regarding the distribution of their content on third party platforms.
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.
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.
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.
The Missing Middle: Reimagining a Future for Tweens, Teens, and Public Media
May 2021
Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have partnered to better understand how young people are engaging with media today in order to help public media better serve Gen Z.
Covid-TV: Routes to Content during Covid-19
2020
What does the impact of Covid-19 on TV viewing tell us about the future of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the UK?
Journalism Thrives in Slovakia Despite Growing Oligarchic Control
May 2020
Slovaks have access to a plethora of news platforms, but many of them are in the hands of powerful financial corporations, closely linked with political groups. Nevertheless, swelling demand for accurate, quality information boosts the country’s independent journalism.
Small Screen: Big Debate
2020
Join the conversation on the future of public service broadcasting in the UK.
Routes to Content: how people decide what TV to watch
2020
With more than half of UK households owning an internet-connected TV and subscribed to at least one SVOD, this article sought to analyse how people discover and decide what television to watch and explore just how accessible public service television is.
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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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