Advancing knowledge and global collaborations on Public Service Media
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 Institute of Technology & Austrian Academy of Sciences) - 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 2026
Picture Credits: Maja Sosnowska IAPMR congratulates Natalie Fenton on winning the 2026 Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award. Fenton, who is a Professor of Media and Communications at Godsmiths, University of London, received… - Olle Zachrison
Olle Zachrison is Senior News Editor AI, and leads the acceleration of artificial intelligence in BBC News with 5,500 journalists worldwide. He is co-founder of the network Nordic AI Journalism that organizes the… - 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…
Resources
- Research Insight | The Case for a Pan-European News Streaming Platform
What if people from all around Europe could have access to news content from the all member states, in their own languages? With this objective in mind, the EU is… - How to sustain public service journalism: The 11th RIPE reader is out
The new RIPE Reader analyzes public service journalism from different angles, defining it as an institution to serve the public interest. By Alessandro D’Arma and Maria Michalis, University of Westminster… - What young European audiences are watching and what it means for public media
Humour & social media buzz: A new study explores the viewing habits of young audiences across four countries in Europe, and explores what it entails for content production By Jeanette Steemers,…
Interviews
- The Swiss referendum on PSM funding: Interview with Manuel Puppis
Picture: Christiane Matzen, Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung Manuel Puppis is Professor of Media Structures and Governance in the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He serves as Vice-President of the Swiss Federal… - Catherine Johnson: Lessons Learned from PSM-AP
Catherine Johnson is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She coordinated the PSM-AP project, which examined the impact of global streaming platforms on public broadcasters in seven European markets. The project ran… - Fernando Oliveira Paulino
Fernando Oliveira Paulino is a Professor at the University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil and President of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC, 2022-2026). He is member and co-founder of the Brazilian National Network of… - Hilde Van den Bulck
Hilde Van den Bulck is Professor of Communication and Head of the Department of Communication at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. Prior to joining Drexel, Hilde was Professor of Communication Studies, Head of the Department of Communication, then…
Practitioner’s Corner
- Practitioner’s Corner: Florence Hartmann
Florence Hartmann leads the Media Intelligence Service (MIS), the research department of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Geneva, Switzerland. Before taking up this position in 2021, she worked as a Senior Media Analyst at MIS for eight years.… - Practitioner’s Corner: Karen Donders
Karen Donders is Director of Public Value, Talent and Organization at VRT, the public broadcaster in Flanders. Before joining VRT in 2021, Karen was a Professor of Communication Sciences and Head of the Media Unit at imec-SMIT at… - Olle ZachrisonOlle Zachrison is Senior News Editor AI, and leads the acceleration of artificial intelligence in BBC News with 5,500 journalists worldwide. He is co-founder of the network Nordic AI Journalism that organizes the Nordic AI in Media Summit.…
- Matthias Pfeffer
Matthias Pfeffer is the founder and Managing Director of the Council for European Public Space (CfEPS), a non-governmental think-tank advocating for an independent European public sphere and digital infrastructure. CfEPS pushes for the development of common digital platforms…
Research Round UP
- Research Round-Up | Focus on funding
- Research Round-Up | Avenues to a “Public Service Internet”
- Research Round-Up: The epistemology of fact-checking and its critique
- Conceptualizing, analyzing & regulating platform power
- Recent Developments in European Media Policy
- Public Service Media, Innovation and Sustainability
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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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Challenges and Developments in Public Service Journalism
The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto
Public Service Media’s Contribution to Society
RIPE@2021
All RIPE publications are available in Open Access
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.