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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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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.
Journalism & News,Principles & Values
PSM countering disinformation: opportunities and challenges
2023
This report shows how important it is for PSM to be independent to carry out their mission against disinformation.
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.
Public Service Media’s contribution to Society
2023
This research rethinks the contribution of PSM to society to recover its initial and essential mission.
Public Service Media: Bridging Values and Trust
2023
This research focuses on the reasons why public service media have generally remained trusted institutions despite the rise of tech.
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.
Principles & Values,Production,DE&I
Integrating Ethnic Content into Public Service Broadcasting
2023
When working towards a democracy, it is important that ethnic content can be integrated into public service broadcasting (PSB).
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.
Innovation & Tech,Principles & Values
How Do Public Service Media Innovate?
2021
The authors explore to what extent public media rely on institutional links and tight coupling with the environment to develop new products.
Distilling the value of public service media
2022
This paper shows the problem of proposing one definition of public value, given the diversity of the spaces in which public media operate.
Innovation & Tech,Principles & Values
What are the ethical concerns behind ‘recommendations’?
2022
As PSM organisations now match other media platforms and content providers in offering recommendations, what are the ethical concerns they need to consider?
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”.
The Contribution of NRK to Norwegian Media Diversity
November 2021
NRK: A review from The Norwegian Media Authority to the Ministry of Culture on NRK's positive contribution to Norwegian society.
Journalism & News,Principles & Values
A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation
October 2021
'In this article, we introduce a framework for assessing how PSM organizations are able to counter disinformation in different contexts.'
The State of State Media
September 2021
A Global Analysis of the Editorial Independence of State Media and an Introduction of a New State Media Typology
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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