Reimagining Public Service Media

Marina Urbanikova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on public service media and its regulation, journalistic autonomy, the safety and security of journalists, and gender in journalism. Beyond academia, she is a co-founder of the Czech NGO Women in Media, a platform dedicated to addressing the challenges faced by female journalists.

Klara Smejkal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on trust in institutions, public service media, studies of audiences in the fragmented media environment, and production in the audiovisual industry. She has been participating in several research projects and has co-authored publications in journals such as International Journal of Press/Politics and Media, Culture & Society.

Iveta Jansova is the Head of the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. She holds a PhD in Cultural and Media Studies and has worked at multiple journalism departments in the country. Her research interests include audience studies, fan studies, cultural studies, and television studies, with a focus on the representation of marginalized identities and the portrayal of women in crime genre in TV.

Lenka Waschkova Cisarova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Her teaching and research focus is on changes in journalistic work, local media, media ownership, emotions in journalism, and the transition of media markets. She is the author and editor of several journal articles, book chapters, and books on related topics.