RTE

Disinformation spread fast as elections are imminent in Australia & Canada; in Ireland, the gov't considers its responsibility to combat it directly.

Public media highlight and launch new fact-checking initiatives, and Australian and Canadian politicians make new pledges for PSM.

The Irish public broadcaster has been through a period of considerable changes to regain its public's trust.

The Irish public broadcaster RTÉ will receive €725 million over the next three years under a new model the media minister called “unprecedented”.

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.

Ireland’s Media Minister has promised to provide €40 million of funding to keep the broadcaster afloat, amid the fears over insolvency.

The government has promised to reform RTÉ’s "broken" funding model by September 2024 but has previously rejected funding through taxation.

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.

For World Press Freedom Day 2022, PMA has analysed six press freedom themes which have been prevalent across the past twelve months.

RTÉ's Director-General says the current licence fee funding model is “utterly broken” and needs to be changed urgently.