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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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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).
Mutual Aid and the “Messy Middle”: pushing public radio toward antiracism
September 2021
This report by the Tow Center explores how public radio stations in the US are adopting initiatives to improve their diversity.
Online violence Against Women Journalists: A Global Snapshot of Incidence and Impacts
December 2020
This report presents a snapshot of the first substantial findings from a global survey about online violence against women journalists conducted by UNESCO and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in late 2020.
Gender Equality and Diversity Implications of COVID-19 Crisis for Public Service Media
2020
What have been the gender and diversity implications of COVID-19 for media?
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.
Gendering War & Peace Reporting
2016
Nordicom publication exploring analytic approaches to how traditional war journalism is gendered.
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.
Women and Media Industries in Europe
2015
An introductory overview of research into the progress made by the European Council in relation to the objectives set by the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 1994.
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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