PMA Update | 5 April
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?? Crumbling advertising market piles on the pressure
A crumbling advertising market has added to uncertainty for many media, with dwindling revenue and increased competition from technology giants forcing some difficult decisions at public broadcasters.?
In the past few weeks alone, the loss of advertising revenue has been blamed for hundreds of job losses in the United States, Canada, Europe, Britain and New Zealand, among several others.
The difficulties brought about by haemorrhaging advertising revenue are largely viewed as a problem for private media, where it is seen as an existential threat. But outside of a few countries, many public service broadcasters also rely on commercial revenue for their operations, which is forcing difficult decisions.
It is also forcing conversations about how public media should be funded – whether it should be entirely by the state or some kind of levy – and also what shape public media should take in the digital age. In Europe, private media lobby groups are trying to limit public broadcasters’ digital offerings as they try and bolster their revenue.
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???? VRT NWS is launching a fact-checking marathon
As the parliamentary and European elections are approaching, VRT NWS will step up a gear in the coming weeks to fact-check political statements together with other news editors from Flanders, French-speaking Belgium and the Netherlands.
???? Insight: SVT is nothing if we are not seen
Swedes are moving from traditional television to digital platforms faster than ever before. At the same time, Sweden finds itself in the most serious security situation since the Second World War. That makes it more important than ever for SVT’s content and services to be easy to find and use.
Join us on Wednesday 10 April for a roundtable discussion with public media colleagues from around the world, on the subject of Prominence.
Staff at PMA’s member organisations are invited to attend our latest PSM Unpacked roundtable. In this session, we will examine the issue of prominence in the era of smart technology and changing consumption habits. What does prominence look like in this landscape, and what initiatives are being taken to promote the prominence of public service media?
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To register, please email [email protected] by Monday 8 April.
PSM Headlines???
ARGENTINA: For the first time in Democracy, the public media did not cover the marches of the 24th (Blog - Spanish)
AUSTRALIA & INDIA: YouTube blocks ABC Foreign Correspondent episode after Indian government's demand
BELGIUM: Shot by AI: AI is a great opportunity for creative media makers (Press release - Opinion - Dutch)
BRAZIL: EBC launches TV Brasil Internacional, a channel for audiences abroad (Press release - Portuguese)
CANADA: Despite its problems, the CBC may turn out to be the hero we need (Opinion)
NEW ZEALAND: Whakaata Māori and the future of Māori media
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