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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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Funding,Principles & Values,Audiences
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.
Funding,Innovation & Tech,Policy
Business models and sustainability in the newspaper industry
2023
This article seeks to comprehend the viability of media business models and how media executives deal with digital change in the market.
How Business Can Support a Healthy Infosphere
2023
The report examines why businesses should care about independent media and how they benefit from independent media.
Public Service Media and Public Funding
2023
Recent public debates in several European countries have shown that public service medias’ public funding has become a controversial topic.
Are public service media distinctive from the market?
2022
This study assesses whether public service media supply a distinctive and informative news service compared to market-led media.
Finding the funds for journalism to thrive
2022
A policy brief by UNESCO that explores options to support media viability. "It makes 22 actionable recommendations."
Funding,Policy,Principles & Values
Funding Democracy: Public Media and Democratic Health in 33 Countries
2021
Funding Democracy: A new report provides evidence that where public media is better funded, they are "positively correlated with healthy democracies”.
Funding Journalism in Israel: Secrecy and Political Influence
June 2020
Unusual opacity is the most salient characteristic of the media system in Israel, where the involvement of political figures in media operation raises serious concerns.
Who Finances India’s Journalism?
June 2020
Commercial advertisers are the largest players in terms of funding spent in the media in India, but the state has also a significant role, financing the country’s public service broadcaster, shelling out public advertising money to commercial media and holding a monopoly over the news radio market.
Principles & Values,Funding,Journalism & News
Soft Power, Hard News: How Journalists at State-Funded Transnational Media Legitimize Their Work
May 2020
How do journalists working for different state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states?
Achieving Viability for Public Service Media in Challenging Settings
2020
Multiple international organisations recognise the value of public service media (PSM) as an essential component of democratisation. Yet how can PSM achieve viability in settings where models of media independence and credibility are unfamiliar or rejected by political leaders?
Policy,Funding,Innovation & Tech
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.
Democracy & PSM
2019
The EBU's research demonstrates how countries with robust public service broadcasting systematically rank higher in core democratic indicators.
Public Broadcasting: The Latin American Exception
2019
An edited version of a talk at the panel The Future of Public Broadcasting: How to Win Back our Hearts? Forum Media and Development, Berlin, November 2018.
Licence Fee 2019
2019
This EBU report highlights the vital importance the licence fee has for public service media across Europe.
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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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