RePIM (Revisioning Public Interest Media) is a four-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network that investigates how public interest media (PIM)—including public service media, quality journalism, and trusted online information providers—can remain relevant, resilient, and impactful in a data-driven, platformised, and AI-powered media ecosystem.

Public interest media face increasing pressure from global platforms, shifting audience behaviour, and fast-paced technological change. To respond, RePIM brings together leading European universities, public media organisations, regulators, and civil-society partners to train 12 Doctoral Candidates and generate new insights into the future of PIM.

Through interdisciplinary research, hands-on industry engagement, and a Europe-wide training programme, RePIM explores how public interest media can be produced, distributed, governed and sustained in the coming decades. The project focuses on four core objectives:

• Reinterpreting public interest values in changing geopolitical and technological contexts
• Evaluating new organisational and technical models
• Developing strategies for content, audiences, and distribution
• Proposing future-proof regulatory frameworks

RePIM aims to strengthen the innovation capacity, societal role, and long-term sustainability of public interest media across Europe.

Doctoral Projects

DC1. Coping with the challenges of automated content in public interest media University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland

DC2. Reinventing content for online-first public media Charles University Prague (CU), Czechia

DC3. Quality news bots for public service media Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark

DC4. Object oriented edge-casting using semantic encoding Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark

DC5. Digital infrastructures in the public interest University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway

DC6. Global logics in local contexts: Reinventing partnership strategies for Public Interest Media Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

DC7. Reconfiguring organisational structures for delivering platformised public value Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

DC8. Developing and transforming sustainability requirements for Public Interest Media Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), Austria

DC9. Regulating Public Interest Media in a platform world Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), Austria

DC10. Public support for non-public service media organisations University of Warsaw (UW), Poland

DC11. Reaching the unreachable Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

DC12. Audience data management and performance measurement in the cross-media landscape Tallinn University (TLU), Estonia

Work Packages