Editorial independence in an automated media system

Abstract

The media has increasingly grown to rely on automated decision-making to produce and distribute news. This trend challenges our understanding of editorial independence by transforming the role of human editorial judgment and creating new dependencies on external software and data providers, engineers, and platforms. Recent policy initiatives such as the EU's Media Action Plan and Digital Services Act are now beginning to revisit the way law can enable the media to act independently in the context of new technological tools and actors. Fully understanding and addressing the challenges automation poses to editorial independence, however, first requires better normative insight into the functions editorial independence performs in European media policy. This article provides a normative framework of editorial independence's functions in European media policy and uses it to explore the new challenges posed by the automation of editorial decision-making.Issue 3

The development of West Bengal: Contextualizing different strategies adopted by Mamata Banerjee’s government

“…Though West Bengal somewhere boasts of its prolonged history of women's participation in broader socio-political movements Mamata's blazing spirit rhetorically encouraged oppressed females across the nation to raise stern voices against enslavement and ignite the urge to develop a spatial protest and thus how the true meaning of democracy got manifested. As argued by Van Drunen (2021) [14] , media independence can be defined as an absence of external influence or control upon the institution where media by following their normative principle, strive to establish a high level of transparency and unbiasedness to make people aware of everyday occurrences. Contemporary media though we are not extremely vociferous and hyper investigative, outspoken like today about the malpractice of the Left front which as per Chatterjee and Basu (2020) [2] , might be due to the fear of getting sabotaged by the left front "Harmad community" upon the attempt of exposition.…”