PSM Weekly | 23 October – 29 October 2019
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
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.
PSM Weekly | 16 October – 22 October 2019
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
PSM Weekly | 9 October – 15 October 2019
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
Poland’s election without public media
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party has been voted in for a second term this week. Yet despite Poland being a representative democracy, the party’s strategy to “repolonise” and control the media is deeply undemocratic.
Uncertainty continues for RTVE
Ongoing disagreement over working hours and wages, a long-awaited public tender and centralisation concerns continue to burden Spain’s national public broadcaster.
UPDATE | Financial crisis at NBC
Following the announcement from the NBC’s board that austerity measures are underway, which includes a possible retrenchment of some of the public broacaster’s workforce, employees took to staging a demonstration in association with the Namibia Public Workers’ Union (NAPWU) in protest against such plans.
PSM Weekly | 2 October – 8 October 2019
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.
BBC Director General reverses decision on complaint against presenter
The BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit last week ruled that BBC presenter, Naga Munchetty, breached editorial guidelines on impartiality for commenting on racist remarks made by President Trump in a tweet. The public broadcaster’s Director General has now overturned this decision.
PSM Weekly | 25 September – 1 October 2019
Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world.