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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In each issue of our newsletter, the research round-up draws your attention to a particular topic that can resonate among PSM scholars and practitioners. In this issue, we take a look at research on recent shifts in media policy at the European level. With the 2018 revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the…Continue readingRecent Developments in European Media Policy
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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 and Journalism Research Center. She has also worked as a consultant in areas such as policy advocacy, gender and the media,…Continue readingMinna Aslama Horowitz
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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 best podcast and the best news. Before joining Aktuality.sk, Peter worked as a reporter and presenter for the Slovak public…Continue readingPeter Hanák
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Emily Gravesteijn
Emily Gravesteijn is a PhD candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen and the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam. Her doctoral research lies at the intersection of political science, political communication and public service media, investigating the factors that lead citizens to perceive PSM…Continue readingEmily Gravesteijn
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
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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