23rd April 2025
How to combat disinformation | The PMA Briefing
Disinformation spread fast as elections are imminent in Australia & Canada; in Ireland, the gov't considers its responsibility to combat it directly.
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.
22nd October 2024
RTÉ chief on building back trust
The Irish public broadcaster has been through a period of considerable changes to regain its public's trust.
5th August 2024
New funding structure and some added certainty for RTÉ
The Irish public broadcaster RTÉ will receive €725 million over the next three years under a new model the media minister called “unprecedented”.
15th March 2024
New leadership for RTÉ as licence fee evasion increases
As the new RTÉ Chair was appointed, it was announced that TV licence fee losses since last year’s payment scandal rose up to €22 million.
13th October 2023
RTÉ facing insolvency, Director General warns
Ireland’s Media Minister has promised to provide €40 million of funding to keep the broadcaster afloat, amid the fears over insolvency.
26th January 2023
Ireland: RTÉ promised funding reform
The government has promised to reform RTÉ’s "broken" funding model by September 2024 but has previously rejected funding through taxation.
14th July 2022
Ireland to maintain and reform licence fee system
Ireland’s long-awaited Future of Media Commission report sets out recommendations to sustain and transform the future of media sector, and how public broadcaster RTÉ should be funded.
3rd May 2022
World Press Freedom Day 2022: themes from the past 12 months
For World Press Freedom Day 2022, PMA has analysed six press freedom themes which have been prevalent across the past twelve months.
3rd February 2022
Ireland: RTÉ pushing for changes to funding
RTÉ's Director-General says the current licence fee funding model is “utterly broken” and needs to be changed urgently.
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