State Media Monitor has moved Spain’s public broadcaster, RTVE, into a better classification. In its September 2026 review, SMM reclassified RTVE from State-Controlled (SC) to Independent State-Funded and State-Managed (ISFM)….
The Moldovan outlet Media Azi has published a feature on the State Media Monitor 2025, highlighting key global trends around public media: fewer truly independent institutions and a growing prevalence of “captured” press….
The Public Media Alliance (PMA) has featured the State Media Monitor 2025 on its website, highlighting the latest global findings on the state of public and state-controlled media. The State Media Monitor 2025, published by…
The director of the Media and Journalism Research Center, Marius Dragomir was interviewed by Sveriges Radio on the topic of public service media. The discussion focused on the state of…
In one of the latest decisions made by Twitter under Elon Musk’s rein, as of Tuesday night, National Public Radio (NPR) has been labeled as state-affiliated media. Such a development questions Twitter’s…
“There is a need for a new vision of public service media,” our Director Marius Dragomir told Australian public service radio ABC. The program, which featured Dragomir, Paul Thompson, chief executive and editor-…
Our Director Marius Dragomir was one of the presenters at the Sixth Expert Roundtable of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, discussing the role of public service media in countering disinformation. He…
The Greek media report on the study that is the base of this database after it was cited by a member of the Greek Parliament, Giannis Ragousis (SYRIZA). Read the…
Last month, the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS), published a study assessing the editorial independence of the world’s state media. Malta’s national broadcaster, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), was classified by the report’s authors…
A new tool to assess the editorial independence of 546 state-administered media companies in 151 countries found that nearly 80% of the world’s state media lack editorial independence. The comparative…