Public Service Media in Challenging Times: Connectivity, Climate and Corona.

On 15 February 2021, CORDI , with the University of Westminster, the InnoPSM project, and the Austrian public broadcaster ORD, co-organized a webinar featuring Professor Graham Murdock

In his talk, Prof. Murdock analysed public service media in the challenging times we live in.

The institutions and animating ideals of public service broadcasting have been under continuous pressure for the last four decades. Advocates of marketisation have argued long and hard that they are no longer relevant or needed in a world of digital abundance and infinite choice, pointing to the increasing migration of young people to on-line platforms. These arguments continue to gain traction. A new proposal for an alternative future must place relations between broadcasting and the internet at the centre of argument. Discussions around how these relations might be organised has been underway for some time but recent developments have invested them with new relevance and urgency.

2020 was marked by a global pandemic, an accelerating climate crisis, and an explosion of direct action across the political spectrum. The processes driving these events are still unfolding presenting Public Service Media with both new challenges and new opportunities.

Please find the webinar recording here: