[4] On February 19, 2020, Tait published an open letter in the Financial Times in support of the British, Australian and Danish public broadcasters, which had experienced funding and staff cuts and, in the case of ABC, been served with search warrants.

[8] In April 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the task force issued its first statement, in which it highlighted the services provided by its members and other public broadcasters to the citizens of their respective countries in a time of crisis.

[9][10] In July it published a statement in Le Monde condemning actions by various Eastern European governments that have curtailed the independence of public broadcasters in the region, including Trójka and Telewizja Polska in Poland, Radiotelevizija Slovenija in Slovenia, and Česká televize in the Czech Republic.

The statement also criticised the decision by government authorities in Hong Kong to review the management and practices of RTHK, the local public broadcaster.

[12] On January 11, 2021, the task force published an op-ed in the Toronto Star condemning the growing threats to journalists’ safety, citing recent examples of CBC News reporters being assaulted in Washington, D.C., and Vancouver following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.