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Statement | There is a reason why the majority of Australians trust the ABC, writes ABC Chair Ita Buttrose.

While demonstrations against police violence and racism are sweeping the US, there have been alarming reports of journalists being violently attacked by both police and demonstrators. The ground for these attacks has been laid by frenzied rhetoric, with the media time after time identified as the enemy.

As Black Lives Matter protests spread across the United States, journalists are facing an unprecedented number of threats, physical attacks and even arrests by authorities for doing their jobs. It is essential that journalists are allowed to cover these events unimpeded.

PMA have joined more than 140 journalism support, media development and press freedom organisations in calling for urgent support for journalists & independent media organisations during the #COVID19 pandemic. 

11 mai 2020 -
Le Groupe de travail mondial pour les médias publics est ravi d’accueillir son huitième et dernier membre, le diffuseur public de Corée du Sud, KBS.

The Global Task Force for public media is delighted to welcome its eighth and final member, South Korea’s KBS.

The year 2020 will be forever etched in our minds. No matter where we live, we share common experiences of fear, grief and the suffering that comes with uncertainty.

Our letter to Trinidad & Tobago's High Commission in London calling on the country's government to respect media freedom in the wake of the police search of the Trinidad Express newspaper. 

The Public Media Alliance is deeply troubled by the recent police raids on the offices of our member the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in Sydney.

The Lithuanian government responded to our concerns on the proposed amendments for the law on the country's public broadcaster.