FORTHCOMING December 19, 2024 online and February 27, 2025 in print
Challenges and Developments in Public Service Journalism, the 11th RIPE Reader, examines the role of public service journalism, as well as the opportunities and challenges of delivering it in today’s increasingly complex and competitive digital media environment. The volume is organised in three parts: ‘Normative frameworks’; ‘Platform Power, Artificial Intelligence and Public Service Journalism’; and ‘National and Regional Cases’ in Europe and beyond – especially Africa, Asia and India. The book addresses the formidable challenges facing public service journalism in the digital media ecology and provides rich and insightful analyses based on empirical research with findings that are relevant for policy interventions, developing organisational strategy, and for applied practice.

“This invaluable collection assembles an impressive array of leading international experts to provide incisive analyses of public service media’s present and future. With great depth and rigour, they illuminate the key debates, challenges and exciting possibilities facing public media today. A timely and necessary intervention, this book deserves a wide readership among scholars, journalists, advocates and concerned citizens.”
- Professor Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania

“This book provides current theoretical thinking and empirical analysis regarding public service media with a distinct focus on journalism. It brings together key contributions from emerging and established scholars and purposely includes perspectives beyond Europe. The editors did an excellent streamlining job, ensuring that the edited volume reads like a unified book rather than a set of separate chapters. The book is highly relevant to scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers involved in public service media.”
- Professor Hilde Van Den Bulck, Drexel University

THE EDITORS
Alessandro D’Arma is Reader in Media and Communication at the University of Westminster.

Maria Michalis is Professor of Communication Policy at the University of Westminster.
Gregory Ferrell Lowe is Professor in Residence and Director of the Executive Education Program at Northwestern University’s international campus in Qatar.

Michael-Bernard Zita is Research, Projects and Networks Manager at the Council for European Public Space.