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Volume 11, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 1757-2681
  • E-ISSN: 1757-269X

Abstract

This commentary outlines the impacts of new media technologies and changed global geopolitics on public service broadcasting (PSB); documents the core values of public broadcasting as a media system, noting its evolution to public service media (PSM); and provides an overview of the current threats to and erosion of independent public media worldwide. However, PSM remains the most trusted source for news and information and a call for better global advocacy for public media.

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2020-07-01
2026-04-19

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