Transnational Voices in the Indo-Pacific

Almost every developed country has a transnational broadcaster, associated on-demand services, and social media channels that are government or state supported which broadcast their country’s values to the world. This chapter is focused on public service broadcasters that produce news and current affairs in and for the Indo-Pacific with a particular emphasis on those that have editorial independence (China is discussed in depth in Chap. 5). This chapter features interviews with English and Australian journalists who have worked for state broadcasters from Russia and China to better understand news making decisions in those organisations. This chapter accepts that responsive, informative, analytic, and intelligent news and current affairs is critical to the survival and nurturing of a democratic culture and argue further, when a country cannot provide its own independent news service, that public service focused transnational broadcasters have an important role to play.