Picture: Harry Lock Why the existing EU regulatory frameworks are causing headaches for establishing effective prominence regimes for public service media, and how these challenges can be addressed – an analysis ahead of a review of the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive. Research Insight presented by the Public Media Alliancein partnership with IAPMR By Adelaida Afilipoaie…Continue readingVisible or Lost in the Interface? The Unfinished Agenda of Article 7a AVMSD
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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 the award for her monograph Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It (Polity, 2025). The selection committee praised the…Continue readingMedia and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award 2026
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 looking into the feasibility of a European-wide news streaming platform. Research Insight presented by the Public Media Alliancein partnership with IAPMR By Konrad Bleyer-Simon and Jan Erik…Continue readingThe Case for a Pan-European News Streaming Platform
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 & IAPMR Co-Presidents Research Insight presented by the Public Media Alliancein partnership with IAPMR Public Service Journalism (PSJ) – journalism in the public interest as a…Continue readingHow to sustain public service journalism: The 11th RIPE reader is out
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, King’s College London Research Insight presented by the Public Media Alliancein partnership with IAPMR Although many British-produced shows including Netflix teen dramas like Sex Education and…Continue readingWhat young European audiences are watching and what it means for 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 by the Public Media Alliance (PMA)in partnership with IAPMR Donald Trump zeroed out federal funding to public media in all four of his previous budget…Continue readingWhat does a second Trump presidency mean for US public media?
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 mean societies are now better prepared and equipped to deal with ‘fake news’? By Minna Horowitz, Docent / Researcher at the University of Helsinki, and Marius…Continue readingIt’s about trust: Public service media and disinformation
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 comprehensive and multidimensional coverage of public opinion in both the non-virtual and virtual spheres. Ewa Nowak-Teter is a political scientist and professor at the Institute of…Continue readingMedia and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award 2024
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 Esser, Emerita Professor of Media and Globalization at King’s College London Research Insight presented by the Public Media Alliance (PMA)in partnership with IAPMR Across our…Continue readingSwitching off: Young audiences, streaming and public media
With Facebook shutting down its news tab, what does that mean for laws that are trying to persuade it to fund public interest journalism? By Fiona Martin, Associate Professor in Online Media, University of Sydney Research Insight presented by the Public Media Alliance (PMA)in partnership with IAPMR When Australia introduced its ‘world first’ ‘News Media Bargaining…Continue readingThe future of bargaining codes
The new RIPE@2021 “Public Service Media’s Contribution to Society“, edited by Manuel Puppis and Christopher Ali was published by the longtime partner NORDICOM. Please read the abstract for full details: Public Service Media (PSM) across Europe and beyond are increasingly under pressure, with both their role in a digital environment and their funding widely scrutinised.…Continue readingRIPE@2021 Book published
We already know the winners of this year’s Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award! The book “Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere: How Extraction Replaced Expression of Opinion” (2022), by Prof. Slavko Splichal (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) was awarded this edition’s award. The Selection Committee evaluated all of the submitted publications according to three interwoven…Continue readingMedia and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award 2023