Public service media

How it is used

Use for the public mission and obligations; public funding alone does not prove editorial independence.

Example sentences

1. Public service media should consider audiences that commercial schedules often overlook.

   The mission extends beyond serving only the most profitable audience segments.

2. The debate about public service media included access to programmes in minority languages.

   Serving diverse audiences can involve language as well as geographical reach.

Common collocations

• fund public service media
• public service media remit
• independent public service media

Related terms

• broadcastA programme sent out on television, radio or the internet for the public; as a verb, to send out such a programme or to make information widely known.
• public interestThe benefit of society as a whole, used to judge whether publishing information, especially private or secret information, is justified.

More terms: The Press and the Media Industry

• the press
• media outlet
• tabloid
• broadsheet
• circulation
• readership
• freelancer
• news desert
• ghost newspaper
• media capture
• community radio
• reader revenue