13th May 2025
Public media and politics: debates over coverage, platforms and funding | The PMA Briefing
Controversy surrounds political representation on public broadcasters in Europe while attacks on PSM escalate in the US.
30th April 2025
How German-speaking PSM are facing fundamental reform
Across both Austria and Germany, why is there a movement to fundamentally change the public service media, ORF, ARD and ZDF?
15th April 2025
New programmes, initiatives, hubs & pledges | The PMA Briefing
Public media highlight and launch new fact-checking initiatives, and Australian and Canadian politicians make new pledges for PSM.
17th December 2024
Germany: Reforms adopted but funding frozen
A state treaty was adopted to reform German public broadcasters, but the increase of the institutions’ funding was delayed until 2027.
25th November 2024
ZDF lodges constitutional complaint
ZDF filed a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court, as Federal states failed to implement the KEF's contribution recommendation
31st October 2024
Germany: Public media sector set for significant reforms
A funding shakeup, limited services, and a merger are all on the cards as part of a package of reforms for the public media of Germany.
25th October 2024
ARD-GVK and ZDF supervisory boards take positions on reforms
With German federal states announcing reform plans, the ARD and ZDF supervisory boards have called for public media values to be protected.
5th July 2024
Majority of population sees educational function for ZDF
For the majority of the population (80.6 percent), it is (very) important that ZDF contributes to the education of the population.
3rd July 2024
Switching off: Young audiences, streaming and public media
The outlook for public media is not encouraging with young audiences turning to streaming services much more than public media.
7th May 2024
ZDF and ARD start open source initiative for shared streaming network
ZDF and ARD start a collaboration on one technical platform for everyone – efficient, oriented to the common good and transparent.