Public Media Alliance

🚨 The Public Media Alliance (PMA) is proud to release its latest report, "How #publicservicemedia are reaching and reflecting Indigenous audiences". The report was commissioned by CBC/Radio-Canada and published ahead of the 2024 PBI Conference. 🧐 Around the world, national public service broadcasters are reflecting on the way they work with and serve Indigenous communities and audiences. They are marking nearly a century of work that has celebrated and preserved cultures; but they’re also grappling with sometimes troubling legacies and plotting how they move to a more equitable future that empowers Indigenous storytelling and journalism. In this report, PMA spoke to more than a dozen people from national and Indigenous broadcasters in eight countries and territories, to understand how they’re serving Indigenous Peoples in both their content and organisations, how they are working with communities, and what the opportunities and challenges of the 2020s pose for how public service media properly reflect Indigenous communities. Read the report in full 👇 https://lnkd.in/e9M48Kwd

🗞The Public Media Alliance’s #newsletters provide a powerful platform for organisations worldwide to stay informed, support independent journalism, and collectively advocate for the unique role of public service media (#PSM) in upholding democracy. Sign up below to access PSM Weekly, PMA Update and The PSM Long Read 🔗 More info and registration here: https://lnkd.in/edQ7gpdx

🧐 Why does #PublicMedia matter? 🇨🇦 At CBC/Radio-Canada's Annual Public Meeting, international public media leaders highlighted the importance of trust and proximity... The event also provides an opportunity for the #publicbroadcaster to reflect on its achievements over the past 12 months. Watch⬇️ https://lnkd.in/g3jK4YB8

🇩🇪 #PublicBroadcasters ARD and ZDF go to the Federal Constitutional Court   ⚖️ The broadcasters have filed a lawsuit after political delays blocked a planned 58-cent increase, originally set for January. ARD Chairman Kai Gniffke calls it a "last resort" to protect procedural fairness.   More via Süddeutsche Zeitung ⬇️

More than 60 Czech institutions have called on the government to support the independence and financial stability of #publicmedia. The organisers say Czech Radio and Česká televize enjoy high trust rates, as well as being a key source of information in crisis situations, such as the recent floods and pandemic. It comes as the government considers whether or not to raise the #licencefee.

🇿🇦 The SABC Bill has been withdrawn... so what next? While there has been a mixed reaction to the bill's withdrawal, what is still urgent is the SABC’s shaky funding situation. With the publication of its latest annual report, the SABC admitted, “SABC’s ability to meet its obligations in the next 12 months remains a material uncertainty and requires the ongoing implementation of severe austerity measures.” Read 👇 https://lnkd.in/e9rTzUXC #SABC #PublicMedia

🇧🇪 A part of RTBF’s staff went on strike to denounce the threat hanging over the #PublicBroadcaster.   ➡️ Through this campaign to raise awareness, they expressed their concern over the independence, diversity and quality of the RTBF as the government is planning on reviewing the mission of the public broadcaster   Read more via RTBF ⬇️

Wrote a piece for the Public Media Alliance (read past the break!) on what the 2024 election might mean for US public broadcasters. In it, I make the point that public broadcasting is a low line item/high symbolic value that has survived mostly UNTIL NOW because GOP pols realize it would be quite unpopular to cut the only news available in some places - thanks to Harry Lock for asking me to write… “In the US, public media is a scrappy survivor – there have been efforts by Republicans since Nixon to kill it. These are mostly symbolic threats against the system, motivated by a combination of accusations of media bias and conservative principles that would reduce government spending and privatize the news media completely.”

🧐 What does a second Trump presidency mean for US #PublicMedia? 💡 In our latest #Research Insight, Nik Usher from the University of San Diego looks into what we can learn from his previous term, and how the next term might shape up. It comes after a difficult few years for the sector, which has faced cuts, job losses, and shrinking audiences. On top of this, Trump's Project 2025 agenda proposes defunding public media. But is there hope? 💭 "Perhaps public media becomes the symbolic olive branch that Republican legislators get to wave given its popularity. Keeping public media alive might be an easy way to suggest that otherwise partisan legislators are acting in good faith to be bipartisan." Read their article in full ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/es9CxCMP

💬 #MediaLiteracy project update: Over the past few weeks, PMA’s Project & Advocacy Coordinator, Desilon Daniels, has been busy visiting schools across the #Caribbean. Following up from her time in Barbados, she has now visited Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago where - alongside facilitator Kiran Maharaj of the Media Institute of the Caribbean - she’s had the opportunity to engage with hundreds of students from eight schools. The visiting team led discussions on students' use of digital technology, ran games to help them better understand media literacy terms, and guided them through exercises that provided insight into the news production process and the role of a journalist. ⏭ Next up, Ms. Daniels will be bringing these activities to Guyana, where more than 100 students will take part in assemblies, a MIL Pop-Up, and a studio tour at NCN Guyana. For more information about the project see here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gMNKxxeq