Advancing knowledge and global collaborations on Public Service Media
Good to know
Special Issue: The European Journal of Communication has just published a special issue (online first) on information as a public good and public service media in Europe, edited by Raluca Petre (Ovidius University of Constanța, Romania). It gathers six articles, which, among others, focus on issues of PSM and platformization as well as PSM and local news desertification.
Read more here
Call for Papers: Örebro University in Sweden arranges a symposium on SVOD audiences and democracy in the European context on 23 May 2025, with a focus on audiovisual fiction. The organizers invite proposals, including on questions of public service audiences and society, until 1 December.
Find the call here
About IAPMR
Our mission
The International Association for Public Media Researchers (IAPMR) advances contemporary theory and actionable research to clarify, support and facilitate the development of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) and Public Service Media (PSM) as a vital requirement to safeguard democratic interests and practices in the 21st century. The Association links institutions, organizations and individuals in creative collaboration.
Our vision
A world with strong and sustainable PSM serving all citizens and available to all nations.
Our values
- Commitment to the public service ethos and democratic ideals
- Commitment to diversity and equity in all its forms and features
- Identification and promotion of empirical and theoretical research
- Encourage innovation in conceptualization and practices in PSM/ PSB
- Integrity in all activities to ensure responsibility and accountability
Our activities
- Access to knowledge. IAPMR is a digital-first networked association that produces online events and shares research and other information such as newsletter and policy briefs, to increase the visibility of theoretical and empirical research on PSM.
- Cross-disciplinary networking. IAPMR facilitates novel cross-disciplinary discussions and collaborations on and around research about the development and sustainability of PSM. The Association engages researchers from disciplines within and beyond the traditional fields of PSM scholarship to enable cross-fertilization, interdisciplinary development, and innovative results.
- Scholar-practitioner collaboration. IAPMR liaises with PSM organizations and any specifically related creative communities for common interests and a shared interest in co-operation.
- Support for future PSM scholarship. IAPMR strongly supports young scholars in all its activities.
- Continuation of RIPE. IAPMR assists the RIPE@ international initiative for public service in media, including organization of RIPE@ conferences.
The Leadership Team
- Joint Presidents.
Alessandro D’Arma and Maria Michalis (University of Westminster) - Vice President.
Krisztina Rozgonyi (Austrian Academy of Sciences & University of Klagenfurt) - Treasurer.
Michael-Bernard Zita (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg) - Secretary & Communications.
Marta Rodríguez-Castro (University of Santiago de Compostela) - Vice Secretary & Young Scholars.
Dominik Speck (TU Dortmund University) - Industry Liaison Officer.
Florence Hartmann (European Broadcasting Union – EBU) - RIPE Chairperson.
Gregory Ferrell Lowe (Northwestern University, Qatar)
Our partners
We collaborate with the Public Media Alliance – PMA (see our joint resource page), with the University of Westminster, with the Central European University – the Center for Media Data and Society, and the Polish Communication Association’s Karol Jakubowicz Book Award.
Our supporter
European Broadcasting Union
NEWS
- Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award 2024
APMR congratulates Ewa Nowak-Teter on winning the 2024 Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award. Her book “Opinia publiczna online” (Eng. Public Opinion Online; Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS, 2023) convinced the selection committee with its… - ActNow! meets in Vienna to discuss the possibilities of a European Digital Platform
ActNow! is a network that advocates for a pan-European, independent, and non-commercial platform, for an Internet for the Public Good and an European Digital Public Sphere. This umbrella coalition met… - Sustainability Sympsium: Towards a Sustainable Future for PSM
The workshop “Towards a Sustainable Future for Public Service Media“, held on June 13, 2023, at the Cavendish Campus of the University of Westminster, brought together a small group of academics and PSM…
Resources
- What does a second Trump presidency mean for US public media?
How the outcome of the US presidential elections could affect the country’s already weakened PSB landscape By Nik Usher, Associate Professor in Communication Studies, University of San Diego Research Insight presented… - It’s about trust: Public service media and disinformation
Mis- and disinformation in elections, fuelled and exacerbated by social networks, is not a new phenomenon. Public service media are often credited as an antidote. Is this deserved? And does it… - Switching off: Young audiences, streaming and public media
A four-country study explores why young audiences flock to streaming services, but are much less attracted to PSM By Jeanette Steemers, Professor of Culture, Media & Creative Industries & Andrea…
Interviews
- Minna Aslama Horowitz
Minna Aslama Horowitz is a Docent and Researcher at the University of Helsinki, a Fellow for International Communication at St. John’s University, New York, and an Expert for Digital Rights and Advocacy at the Media… - Paulo Faustino
Paulo Faustino was the local organizer of the RIPE@2024 conference. He is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto, Portugal, and has been a visiting researcher at various European and North… - Annika Sehl
Annika Sehl is a Chair and Professor of Journalism with a Focus on Media Structures and Society at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. She is also a Research Associate of the Reuters Institute for the… - Michał Głowacki
Michał Głowacki is an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He has conducted research projects funded by the European Commission, the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, the Swedish Institute, the Research Council…
Practitioner’s Corner
- Peter Hanák
Peter Hanák is a journalist, researcher and university teacher. Since 2018, he has been working for Aktuality.sk, the most popular news website in Slovakia. He has been awarded the Slovak Journalism Prize twice, for the… - João Galveias
João Galveias is Director of Content for Young Audiences at RTP, Portugal’s public broadcaster. He has also been Director of Digital Services at RTP since 2014, and chairs the Digital Committee of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). During… - Beata Chmiel
Beata Chmiel is the co-founder and executive president of the Women of Film Association, which aims to promote equal opportunities and gender equality in the Polish audiovisual industry. In 2010, she was one of the initiators…
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Webinars IAPMR@Dialogues
EBU: Research foci and opportunities for academic collaboration
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Public Service Media in the Age of Digital Capitalism and COVID-19
Prof Karen Donders
Building Bridges: PSM law, theory and practice
Prof Lizzie Jackson
Bricolage & Fluidity: Towards ‘Post Channel’ PSM?
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Public Service Media’s Contribution to Society
RIPE@2021
All RIPE publications are available in Open Access
Other Recommended Publications
The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto
Publication Website (Open Access Publication)
Our history
IAPMR builds on the so-called RIPE initiative, a network, series of conferences, as well as widely known readers on trends in public service media. The initiative was started in 2001 by Gregory Ferrell Lowe, who was a Senior Advisor for Corporate Development at the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), then a Professor at the University of Tampere, and now a professor at the Northwestern University in Qatar. Colleagues supporting this initiative in the early years, and contributing significantly as partners to its launch and subsequent development, include Jo Bardoel, University of Amsterdam, Taisto Hujanen (University of Tampere), John Jackson (Concordia University), Per Jauert (University of Aarhus) and Alan G. Stavitsky (University of Oregon).
Today the RIPE network continues its activities with hundreds of contributors and is growing every year. IAPMR, first led by President Lizzie Jackson (London South Bank University) and Vice President Christine Horz (the Applied University of Cologne), became an association registered in Austria, in 2021, under the current leadership team. IAPMR continues to support the RIPE initiative in all its activities.