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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RIPE@2026: Conference website is now live
Taiwan public broadcaster PTS will sponsor the conference.Continue readingRIPE@2026: Conference website is now live
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 Media Commission (FMEC), an advisory body to the Swiss Federal Government. He holds a PhD in Communication Science from the…Continue readingManuel Puppis on the Swiss referendum on PSM funding
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Focus on funding
This Research Round-Up presents three recent academic contributions centered around PSM funding, ranging from an overview of funding models in different countries, to studies on willingness to pay and the validity of the ‘crowding-out’ argument for PSM online news. Public service media: funding and governance optionsGeorgina Born and Justin Lewis (Ed.) |The British Academy, 2025 This international comparison,…Continue readingFocus on funding
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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Laura Martínez Aguila
Laura Martínez Aguila is a PhD candidate in Communication at the University of Brasília (UnB) in Brazil. Prior to this, she served as an Audience Ombudsperson at the Mexican Institute of Radio (IMER) from 2020 to 2025. Currently, Laura is Head of the Research Committee at the Mexican Association of Audience Defenders (AMDA) and Vice-Coordinator of Working Group 18: Ethics,…Continue readingLaura Martínez Aguila
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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. She holds a PhD in the Economics of International Relations from Sciences Po Paris, where she worked as a research…Continue readingFlorence Hartmann
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
In 2021, The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto called for PSM to provide acounterweight to the existing platform universe by establishing a digital commons, a digital open space adhering to public service values. Four years later, this call seems more urgent than ever, given global threats to democracy and the heightened scrutiny of platform power in…Continue readingAvenues to a “Public Service Internet”
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 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she had previously worked as a junior and senior researcher. She completed her PhD on European…Continue readingPractitioner’s Corner: Karen Donders
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 from 2022 to 2025 and was funded by a €1.5 million CHANSE grant. Catherine is an expert in screen media…Continue readingCatherine Johnson: Lessons Learned from PSM-AP
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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 Nordic AI in Media Summit. Before joining the BBC in April 2025, Olle held various senior editorial roles at Sveriges Radio for nine years, most recently…Continue readingOlle Zachrison