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

It’s been a  year marked by real progress towards a more sustainable future. 🌱 As a public broadcaster, we are committed to the vision of embedding environmentally sustainable thinking in all we do. Explore our Annual Sustainability Report to see how we're contributing to a greener future for all. https://lnkd.in/eaGNZ2j8 

Just two more schools to go! 🙌 Our #MediaLiteracy visits in the Caribbean are coming to a close, marking the final stretch of an incredible journey across the region. From Barbados to Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, and now Guyana, it’s been inspiring to see students embrace lessons on digital safety, fact-checking, and critical thinking. These young minds are truly the next generation of media-literate citizens! A big thank you to the educators and students who’ve made this initiative so impactful. Special thanks to our partners IIEP-UNESCO Latin America and the Caribbean, Media Institute of the Caribbean, and the Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers. Stay tuned as we wrap up and reflect on the highlights! #MIL #DigitalLiteracy

🇨🇿 The future funding of Czech #publicbroadcasters remains uncertain as the approval of a bill to increase the licence fee drags on. The Czech government proposed amendments to the Public Broadcasting Act to increase the licence fee of Czech TV and Czech Radio. But a decision on the bill has been blocked by the opposition and delayed until next year. ➡️ PMA stands in support of Czech Radio and our member Czech Television and urge MPs to support a viable and sustainable future for #publicmedia.   Read more ⬇️ #CzechRepublic #PublicServiceMedia

The Public Media Alliance is at UNESCO in Paris this morning, attending the Media Partnership Forum on the global study on Indigenous Peoples and the media. We have been a member of the working group on this study and we presented our recent research exploring how #publicmedia reach and reflect Indigenous Peoples. We're joining many Indigenous journalists, public media leaders, civil society groups, UN representatives, academics, and UNESCO in this dialogue. Mirta Lourenco Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg Kelly Williams Robert D. Thomas Sarri Johan Ailo Kalstad Dan Bourchier JP GAICD Find out more info about this event 👇 https://lnkd.in/enQcWpxh

We are deeply concerned by the advancement of a bill to privatise Israel’s public broadcaster. This bill is the latest in a line of threats to undermine #mediafreedom. If it comes to pass, it will end Kan's source of public funding and effectively eliminate #publicmedia in the country. Find out more via: European Broadcasting Union (EBU): https://lnkd.in/ezcxY6sQ Reporters Without Borders (RSF): https://lnkd.in/enQa-nU4 #Israel #PublicServiceMedia #Kan

🌏 DG8 Summit 2024 - Journalist safety, censorship and the role of third-party platforms. The leaders of eight international #PublicServiceMedia broadcasters, the DG8 – Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) International, CBC/Radio-Canada, France Medias Monde, Deutsche Welle, NHK WORLD JAPAN, SRG SSR, BBC World Service and United States Agency for Global Media – gathered in Sydney on November 12-13 under the presidency of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). In his opening address, ABC Chair Kim Williams set the stage for productive discussions on shared values and critical challenges: ▶️ Ensuring access to balanced and independent information for all citizens ▶️ Combating misinformation, disinformation, and censorship ▶️ Upholding editorial independence and journalistic safety as pillars of press freedom Further details via ABC ↩️ The Public Media Alliance is proud to have contributed an in-depth report on "Managing Platform Power: The future of public media and international news". https://lnkd.in/eSxYUXay

🇩🇪 German public broadcaster ZDF lodges constitutional complaint After the federal states failed to implement the KEF recommendation to raise the household levy, ZDF filed a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. The lack of decision regarding the KEF recommendation shed uncertainty on the funding of the #PublicBroadcaster for the coming year. 💭‘The independence of our reporting stands and falls with the independence of our financing’ Norbert Himmler, Director of ZDF More info ⬇️   #Germany #PublicMedia

New audience research released today shows RNZ is engaging with a record 80% of New Zealanders aged 18-plus with its content a month.* RNZ Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief Paul Thompson said reaching 80% of New Zealanders was considered an ambitious goal and RNZ had given itself till 2027 to achieve it. “It really demonstrates our evolution as a cornerstone provider for media content that we’ve reached our goal three years early. We now share our content with more than 65 different media outlets, and this shows the vital role a public media organisation like RNZ can play to support others, especially in the current difficult climate for media.”  You can read the full release that includes other information from our Value Indices survey and the most recent Gfk live radio survey here: https://lnkd.in/gCJvycYv *Verian (formerly Kantar Public) Value Indices survey was conducted between 31 October and 13 November 2024 

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