Public broadcasting
Electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service
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| February 3 2025 | Slava media platform begins editorial work, preparing for future broadcasting. |
| January 2025 | President Trump reportedly dismissed the members of the International Broadcasting Advisory Board during his first week in office. |
| January 2025 | President Trump nominated L. Brent Bozell III, a conservative critic of mainstream media, to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media. |
| January 31 2025 | A Defense Department memo mandated that NPR must relocate from its longtime workspace on the Correspondents' Corridor in the Pentagon, as part of a new Annual Media Rotation Program for the Pentagon Press Corps. |
| January 20 2025 | President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order revoking the Presidential Memorandum of January 3, 2025 regarding the designation of officials for the U.S. Agency for Global Media. |
| January 15 2025 | Launch of Euronews' permanent Polish-language service as the 18th language, coinciding with Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union. |
| 2024 | Radio Free Asia received the National Edward R. Murrow Award in the Network Radio Digital category for the report 'Under the Gun in Myanmar'. |
| 2024 | Uri Berliner resigns from NPR, citing disparagement by CEO Katherine Maher and her divisive views. |
| 2024 | Veteran NPR journalist Uri Berliner publicly criticizes NPR for left-wing bias in reporting, particularly after the 2016 United States presidential election. |
| 2024 | NPR suspends Uri Berliner for 5 days without pay for allegedly not securing approval to work for another outlet. |
| 2024 | Multiple European broadcasting organizations established or renewed: Arte (France), TVM (Monaco), and Slovak Television and Radio (Slovakia) |
| 2024 | Copenhagen Girls Choir from Denmark wins the 'Let the Peoples Sing' competition held in London, conducted by Anne-Terese Sales. |
| 2024 | The EBU planned to host the Eurovision Debates for the upcoming European Commission presidential election. |
| December 3 2024 | Vot Tak becomes a separate Russian-language editorial section within TVP's new 'Ośrodek Mediów dla Zagranicy' structure. |
| November 2024 | TVP Stream service begins redirecting all clickable links to Na Źywo in TVP VOD, signaling the imminent closure of the TVP Stream platform. |
| September 16 2024 | Meta banned RT from its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, citing foreign interference activity. |
| August 9 2024 | RT's broadcast and studio equipment in Washington DC were auctioned off, signaling potential operational changes or challenges for the network. |
| May 2024 | ABC started moving from its Ultimo office to a new Parramatta office, with ABC Radio Sydney Mornings being the first program broadcast from the new studio. |
| April 2024 | The EBU confirmed that the suspension of BTRC was made indefinite, extending beyond the initially reported three-year period. |
| March 2024 | RFA announced the closure of its Hong Kong bureau due to safety concerns stemming from Hong Kong's National Security Ordinance. |
| March 2024 | The ABC aired a controversial documentary 'Ukraine's War: The Other Side' by Sean Langan, which was heavily criticized by Ukrainian ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko for appearing to favor the Russian perspective on the war. |
| March 7 2024 | Kim Williams was appointed as Chair, with his term set to end on 6 March 2029. |
| February 2024 | TVP Parlament brand discontinued, replaced by TVP Info brand for parliamentary session broadcasts |
| January 2024 | NPR's board selected Katherine Maher, former Wikimedia Foundation CEO, as the new CEO, with her taking office in late March. |
| 2023 | NPR partnered with Spotify to run targeted advertisements through the Spotify Audience Network platform within NPR programming. |
| 2023 | Following a change in government, a TVP host formally apologized to the LGBT community for previous attacks broadcast against them. |
| 2023 | European media designated TVP as a 'propaganda arm' of PiS in the run-up to the Polish parliamentary election. |
| 2023 | Following the electoral victory of the opposition party Civic Platform, a new Minister of Culture began restructuring the broadcaster and its news segment. |
| 2023 | Voice of America responded to Twitter labeling its account as government-funded media, expressing concern about potential implications for news coverage objectivity. |
| 2023 | President Biden's budget request included $840 million for USAGM, an increase of $29.6 million from the 2022 requested level, to support the agency's mission of informing, engaging, and connecting people worldwide in support of freedom and democracy. |
| 2023 | The ABC moves to a five-year funding term, fulfilling a Labor election pledge. |
| 2023 | The ABC lost a defamation case against Heston Russell, withdrawing its truth defence and opting for a public interest defence. Justice Lee awarded Russell $390,000 in damages, with legal expenses estimated between $1.2 million and $3 million. |
| 2023 | EBU Investigative Journalism Network uncovered evidence of a Kremlin-sponsored initiative to transport Ukrainian children to Russia, which is considered a war crime under international law. |
| 2023 | Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal (ACORAB) joins the broadcasting network |
| December 2023 | Antoinette Lattouf was hired for five days to fill in for Sarah Macdonald on ABC Radio Sydney, but was sacked three days later due to her social media posts about the Israel-Gaza conflict. She subsequently initiated legal action with the Fair Work Commission alleging racial discrimination. |
| December 27 2023 | The Minister of Culture and National Heritage placed TVP in liquidation due to the President's veto on the company's financing. |
| December 21 2023 | TVP broadcast its first evening news bulletin at 19:30 with a new team of journalists under the title '19.30'. |
| December 20 2023 | Major restructuring of news operations: TVP Info, TVP3, TVP Parlament, and TVP World are placed on temporary hiatus. |
| December 19 2023 | Multiple regional TVP3 channels (Białystok, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Olsztyn, Rzeszów) introduced Full HD broadcasting |
| December 19 2023 | The Sejm passed a resolution to 'restore the legal order and impartiality of public media' with 244 votes in favor. Minister of Culture Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz simultaneously dismissed the authorities of public media. |
| December 15 2023 | Multiple regional TVP3 channels (Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Katowice, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Szczecin, Wrocław) introduced Full HD broadcasting |
| October 16 2023 | Nicolette Maury and Louise McElvogue were appointed to the ABC Board, with their terms set to end on 15 October 2028. |
| September 2023 | RT launched its online platform in Portuguese as 'RT Brazil', expanding its international media presence. |
| June 2023 | Released a five-year plan to shift resources from radio and television to digital platforms. |
| June 1 2023 | Linear TV-channels return to the TVP VOD service after previously disappearing following the October 2022 restart. |
| May 1 2023 | Laura Tingle was appointed as Staff-elected director, with her term set to end on 30 April 2028. |
| April 12 2023 | NPR announced it would cease all activity on Twitter, protesting the platform's 'inaccurate and misleading' labeling. CEO John Lansing allowed individual journalists to decide their own Twitter usage while criticizing the platform's stance on editorial independence. |
| April 10 2023 | NPR reporter Bobby Allyn revealed that Elon Musk claimed he determined NPR's designation using a Wikipedia category page of publicly funded broadcasters. |
| April 8 2023 | Twitter changed NPR's account designation from 'state-affiliated' to 'government-funded'. |
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