The 12th RIPE Conference “Public Service Media for Innovation and Sustainability“ was hosted in May 2024 by Nova University and Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) in Lisbon, in collaboration with Porto University (Porto, Portugal) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago, Spain). We had three days of intense debate where we were able to share different ideas on and approaches to Public Service…Continue readingNotes on RIPE@2024 – and looking forward to 2026
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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
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Michael Pakvis
Michael Pakvis is a Teaching Assistant and PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. He holds Master’s degrees in Journalism and Media in Europe from VUB and in Globalisation and Development Studies from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Michael’s doctoral research focuses on a hotly debated topic that has been at the forefront of political discussions…Continue readingMichael Pakvis
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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 the RIPE@2024 conference in Lisbon, João presented RTP’s strategies to reach young audiences. He began his career at RTP in 1994, working in the…Continue readingJoão Galveias
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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 American universities. Paulo was co-founder and former President/Chairman of the International Media Management Academic Association (IMMAA), co-founder and board member…Continue readingPaulo Faustino
In each issue of our newsletter, the research round-up draws your attention to a specific topic that can resonate among PSM scholars and practitioners. In this issue, we selected three recent publications that revolve around the theme of the RIPE@2024 conference: Public service media, innovation and sustainability. The forthcoming conference volume will add to the…Continue readingPublic Service Media, Innovation and Sustainability
At the General Assembly (GA) on 3 July, the IAPMR leadership team stood for re-election for another three-year term (2024-2027), with a new Vice President joining: Krisztina Rozgonyi will take over this role from Minna Aslama Horowitz, who has decided to leave the team. Besides, Dominik Speck has joined the team as Vice Secretary. We thank Minna for her invaluable support over the…Continue readingIAPMR leadership team re-elected with two new colleagues joining
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RIPE@2024 is coming
The RIPE@2024 Conference is fast approaching! The conference will focus on the theme Public Service Media for Innovation and Sustainability and will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 16th to the 18th of May, 2024. The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Nova University (Lisbon, Portugal), Porto University (Porto, Portugal) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago, Spain)…Continue readingRIPE@2024 is coming
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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 of the Citizens of Culture initiative, which advocates for a more citizen-centered approach to media and cultural policy. She also…Continue readingBeata Chmiel
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Audience Expectations of PSM
It has often been criticized that the lion’s share of academic research on PSM has focused on policy and governance as well as the perspectives of public broadcasters or the broader media industry, rather than taking more account of the perceptions of the audience. This research round-up brings together three selected recent studies that have…Continue readingAudience Expectations of PSM