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: Join us in Taipei
Taiwan public broadcaster PTS will sponsor the conference.Continue readingRIPE@2026: Join us in Taipei
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IAPMR’s Statement of Support for PTS
17 August 2026 To: Mr Yuan-Hui Hu, Chairman of PTS Board Directors The International Association of Public Media Researchers (IAPMR) expresses profound concern and strong opposition to the legislative budget cuts to Taiwan’s Public Television Service (PTS). IAPMR is a large international community of researchers, policymakers and practitioners working collaboratively to clarify, support and facilitate the…Continue readingIAPMR’s Statement of Support for PTS
Marína Urbániková is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Since April 2026, she has also had an Associate Professorship at Charles University in Prague. Originally from Slovakia, she holds a PhD in Sociology from Masaryk University. Marína serves as Vice-Chair of the Public Media…Continue readingMarína Urbániková on PSM funding in Czechia
Picture: Harry Lock Research Insight presented in partnership with the Public Media Alliance (PMA) Events such as the FIFA World Cup are always big showpieces for public service media and provide a lot of value for audiences. But what does that look like in the current fragmented media ecosystem, and is it going to be…Continue readingAn easy win: The value of global sporting events to PSM
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Johanna Wolleschensky
Picture: Kilian Müller Johanna Wolleschensky is a PhD candidate and research associate at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. Working at the intersection of journalism studies and audience research, Johanna has co-authored several publications, including studies on how PSM journalists respond to the rise of populist parties. She holds a BA in Cultural and Media Education from Merseburg…Continue readingJohanna Wolleschensky
This Research Round-Up presents three recent academic contributions centered around how (public) service media and journalism interact with, are dependent on or themselves form part of (critical) infrastructures, a debate gaining salience in the wake of geopolitical crises and digitial sovereignty debates. Why infrastructures studies for journalism?Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida |Digital Journalism, 2025 This conceptual review explores how recent…Continue readingMedia and journalism as infrastructure
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