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We have a specific remit to support and advocate for the role and importance of these organisations – otherwise known as public service broadcasters – in society and democracy. We are a non-profit organisation funded by over fifty public media organisations, including the BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and Thai PBS. Find out more: What is public service media? Founded in 1945, the organisation today has a global membership, offering members an equal opportunity to exchange ideas, views, and best practice in public media. Our vision is a world where the public can continue to access free, independent, engaging and representative national and international media wherever they are. We support and work with these organisations to improve standards, train journalists, and provide support if they face pressure from governments, funding issues or attacks on their reporters and staff.

In this week's PMA Update... 🤝🇪🇸 Spain's RTVE joins the Public Media Alliance. 💻 We launch the Public Spaces Incubator page, with a newly-published White Paper detailing progress on the project so far. 🇫🇯 Fijians rate PMA member FBC News and TV as number one for accurate news and sports stories in our latest member report. And much more ⬇️ 🤔 What if people from across Europe could have access to news content from the all member states, in their own languages?

In our latest research insight, Konrad Bleyer-Simon and Jan Erik Kermer, Ph.D. investigate the feasibility of creating a pan-European streaming platform, in line with #EU plans to strengthen access to trustworthy information across its member states. Their findings show that the feasibility of the platform is a non-issue: Thanks to existing #AI technologies, such a programme could be built with modest investment and without conflicting EU law. By offering a wide range of content on any given topic, the proposed European News Streaming Platform (ENSP) could empower European citizens to engage in meaningful cross-border debates on shared challenges. Read the full research insight here: https://lnkd.in/eFTbWWzf Curious about the most pressing global developments in #publicmedia this week?

Here are the headlines from our latest PMA Briefing: 🇨🇴 RTVC, Sistema de Medios Públicos de Colombia faces lawsuit over editorial bias & lack of plurality 🇧🇴 Bolivia's new government is ending print publication... 🇦🇹 50 jobs are on the line at ORF, with the Austrian public broadcaster having to continue to make savings. Read each briefing in full ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e64rZXca 🌱 Four years after launching the Greening Our Story strategy, impressive progress has been made. We have significantly reduced our greenhouse gas emissions, water, energy consumption, and more! Explore our latest sustainability achievements in detail!

👉 https://lnkd.in/eXTMEZRw 🌍 NEW: The Public Media Alliance is delighted to welcome Spanish public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española to our global association of public media entitites. "As Spain’s national public broadcaster, RTVE plays a vital role in delivering trusted, independent, value-driven and high-quality content to audiences, especially during times of crisis and emergency. But in a world of growing disinformation and polarisation, it has never been more important for public media to stand together internationally, to share knowledge and raise awareness of the values that make them... Read the full press release in English and Spanish here: https://lnkd.in/eAxFvPa2 The Public Media Alliance (PMA) is the largest global association of public service broadcasters.

It was first founded in 1945 as the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. The PMA provides a global context for public service broadcasters as they transit in the digital era. It has members (operating through TV, radio and online) in 54 countries. The about section of the association's site reads that the PMA works "to identify, research and champion common themes in Public service media (PSM) and provide forums for debate and networking. We also act as a bridge between the academic and public debate around PSM and its changing role. We do this practically through running training, symposiums, exchange programmes, publishing research and reviewing the research of others.

We are also working to create appropriate benchmarks for PSM". Centro per la Cooperazione Internazionale Vicolo San Marco, 1 - 38122 Trento / Italy Region: Europe (Central, Northern, Southern, Western) The Public Media Alliance is the largest global association of public service media organisations. The Public Media Alliance has a specific remit to support and advocate for the role and importance of these organisations – otherwise known as public service broadcasters – in society and democracy.

The Public Media Alliance are a non-profit organisation and funded by public broadcasters like the BBC and their equivalent organisations worldwide such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This information is part of the Open Yearbook, a free service of UIA's subscription-based Yearbook of International Organizations (YBIO). It includes profiles of non-profit organizations working worldwide in all fields of activity. The information contained in the profiles and search functionality of this free service are limited. The full-featured Yearbook of International Organizations (YBIO) includes over 77,500 organization profiles, additional information in the profiles, sophisticated search functionality and data export. For more information about YBIO, please click here or contact us.

The UIA is a leading provider of information about international non-profit organizations. The aim of the Open Yearbook is to promote the activities of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). URL: https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/publicmediaalliance/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/public-media-alliance/Twitter: https://twitter.com/PublicMediaPMA Create, with its members, the leading forum for exchange of knowledge to support Public Service Broadcasting/Media and the principles of free and independent media worldwide. Supporting our members to build and promote trust in public media worldwide. The Public Media Alliance (PMA) is the largest global association of public media organisations and focuses specifically on providing advocacy and support for public media worldwide in the digital age.

PMA has a unique global overview of how public media is being affected by the acceleration of media convergence. We curate and aggregate research and commentary from media academics and practitioners around the world as public broadcasting evolves into public media. Founded in 1945, the organisation today has a global membership, offering members an equal opportunity to exchange ideas, views and best practice in public media. Our vision is a world where the public can continue to access free, independent, engaging and representative national and international media wherever they are. We work to identify, research and champion common themes in public media and provide forums for debate and networking. We also act as a bridge between the academic and public debate around public media and its changing role.

We do this practically through running training, symposiums, exchange programmes, publishing research and reviewing the research of others. Our aim is to build consensus, stand together and advocate a united global voice for public service media For jobs visit: www.publicmediaalliance.org/jobs No recent news or press coverage available for Public Media Alliance. Want to explore more about Public Media Alliance? Empower your investment decision with smart matching and actionable alternative data platform. We look at the bomb threat at France Télévisions, the risk of a national blackout at SABC, and growing pressure on LRT.

More than half of Fijians rank FBC first for accurate news and sports stories, a new survey by BBC Media Action suggests. Six public media and one nonprofit R&D lab are embarking on a groundbreaking initiative: to provide online spaces safe for civil debate. Our weekly round-up of public service media related stories and headlines from around the world. Colombian public media face a lawsuit; austerity measures hit media in Austria and Bolivia; Australian efforts to make big tech pay for news continue.

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