Marina Urbanikova
@marinaurbanikova.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Masaryk University, CZ | Journalism studies & media policy & sociology of law | Co-founder of Women in Media (Ženy v médiích, z.s.) | Board Member of The Endowment Fund for Independent Journalism
Honored to receive the Ivo Možný Prize for Societal Contribution. As public service media becomes increasingly politically contested—with opposition plans to merge CT and CRo, reduce their remit, and fund them via state budget—the real fun will begin after the parliamentary elections this autumn.
@marinaurbanikova.bsky.social received the Ivo Možný Award for Societal Contribution – for actively bringing insights from her research on public service media and the position of women in journalism into public debate.
April 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Honored to receive the Ivo Možný Prize for Societal Contribution. As public service media becomes increasingly politically contested—with opposition plans to merge CT and CRo, reduce their remit, and fund them via state budget—the real fun will begin after the parliamentary elections this autumn.
Today, Czech MPs approved an increase in licence fees for public service media and introduced a system of automatic indexation based on inflation. Given the current climate across Europe, it is almost a miracle. I spoke about the developments for Balkan Insight: balkaninsight.com/2025/02/26/b...
Battle Over Czech Public Service Broadcaster: Another Rerun
The Czech government is looking to push through a license fee hike for public service broadcasters before the autumn election, when the populists are expected to return to power.
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March 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today, Czech MPs approved an increase in licence fees for public service media and introduced a system of automatic indexation based on inflation. Given the current climate across Europe, it is almost a miracle. I spoke about the developments for Balkan Insight: balkaninsight.com/2025/02/26/b...
Our study on what the public expects from public service media - including an in-depth dive into what audiences actually mean when they say they want objective news - is out now in Media, Culture & Society. With @ksmejkal.bsky.social
Exploring how public service media (PSM) maintains its legitimacy, @marinaurbanikova.bsky.social and @ksmejkal.bsky.social dive into public expectations in a competitive media landscape.
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February 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our study on what the public expects from public service media - including an in-depth dive into what audiences actually mean when they say they want objective news - is out now in Media, Culture & Society. With @ksmejkal.bsky.social
Very happy to see this book out! With @marpal.bsky.social, we contributed a chapter on the notorious underrepresentation of women in the media.
Collaboration of 36 scholars, journalists and researchers from 27 countries. Born from ten years of comparative research into various dimensions of media pluralism, media freedom, and conditions for quality journalism to exist/thrive.
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a decade of research on media pluralism in Europe - MPM book
This book offers a comparative analysis of how media pluralism and journalism standards have evolved over the past decade in Europe.
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November 29, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Very happy to see this book out! With @marpal.bsky.social, we contributed a chapter on the notorious underrepresentation of women in the media.
Reposted by Marina Urbanikova
Look which media policy scholar spontaneously dropped by in Fribourg: Marko Milosavljevic visited @marinaurbanikova.bsky.social, Patric Raemy and me on his way from Ljubljana to Prague
November 21, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Look which media policy scholar spontaneously dropped by in Fribourg: Marko Milosavljevic visited @marinaurbanikova.bsky.social, Patric Raemy and me on his way from Ljubljana to Prague
Many agenda setters (curiously, mostly middle-aged men within the X platform) argue Czech Radio should not produce podcasts, claiming it’s unfair competition to the private sector. And the best of all – they’re not interested in female sexuality, so it’s not a public service topic. Hilarious. 3/3
November 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Many agenda setters (curiously, mostly middle-aged men within the X platform) argue Czech Radio should not produce podcasts, claiming it’s unfair competition to the private sector. And the best of all – they’re not interested in female sexuality, so it’s not a public service topic. Hilarious. 3/3
Radio Wave, the PSM channel for young and young-minded listeners, released a podcast series "Pleasure" about female sexuality, which addresses a number of serious and underrepresented topics. Elsewhere, PSM might have received praise for this, but in the Czech Republic, it sparked a storm. 2/3
November 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Radio Wave, the PSM channel for young and young-minded listeners, released a podcast series "Pleasure" about female sexuality, which addresses a number of serious and underrepresented topics. Elsewhere, PSM might have received praise for this, but in the Czech Republic, it sparked a storm. 2/3
While the proposal to increase licence fees for Czech public service media (for the first time in 15 years) is in parliament, the debate over the scope and definition of public service remit is taking on absurd dimensions in places. 1/3
November 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM
While the proposal to increase licence fees for Czech public service media (for the first time in 15 years) is in parliament, the debate over the scope and definition of public service remit is taking on absurd dimensions in places. 1/3