UNESCO World Radio Day

World Radio Day: Radio and Diversity

To celebrate UNESCO's 9th World Radio Day, we explore some of the key public media initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion.

ABC HQ Sydney

ABC Australia releases new inclusivity and diversity plan

The Australian public broadcaster, ABC, sets out new measures aimed at enhancing greater integration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities by ensuring that local languages and voices are an everyday part of the national conversation.

BBC HQ night

Focus on PSM | The challenges facing the BBC

Concerns over transparency, relevance, governance and its funding model are just some of the issues that the public broadcaster has been grappling with.

RNZ Paul Thompson

Insight | The struggle for media pluralism

In this op-ed, RNZ CEO Paul Thompson highlights the struggle for pluralism in New Zealand and the need for strong independent public media.

SBS

SBS delivers new mobile-first website in 68 languages

Australia and the world's "most linguistically diverse public broadcaster", SBS, has launched an innovative new mobile-first website to improve accessibility and engagement with in-language content. 

PBI 2019: How does PSM stand apart?

Ahead of September's Public Broadcasters International we reflect on the key differences between state, public and private media and explore a key societal role of public broadcasters.

Providing children’s content in an era of migration: Challenges and opportunities

Our roundup of a much needed project to shed light on the challenges and opportunities of content provision for children confronted with the realities of forced migration.

Regulator sets new rules for the BBC

The British regulator Ofcom wants to “raise the bar on performance” of the BBC with a series of resolutions that will affect the company’s content, quotas and diversity.

Eurobarometer: Media pluralism and democracy

This must read barometer was launched ahead of the 2016 Colloquium on Fundamental Rights by the European Commission.

Greek parliament

Concerns for media pluralism in Greece

In early September the Greek government held a controversial licence fee auction for private television broadcasters, cutting the number from eight to four.