The Governance of Public Service Media for the Internet Society

Freire, Francisco Campos; Vaz-Álvarez, Martín; Ruiz, María José Ufarte

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“…The information obtained in this study confirms previous research into institutional and economic transparency, as well as into the transparency in the production of contents by European public broadcasters (Palau-Sampio 2017;Costa-Sánchez and Túñez-López 2017;Herzog et al 2018), which differs from results in other latitudes (López-López et al 2019) and which shows the specificities of the European media system (Campos-Freire et al 2021). Similarly, this study shows the need to move forward towards more integrated and complex assessments with composite indicators so that other aspects such as social value or the efficacy in the management of the corporations can be measured (Blasco-Blasco et al 2020).…”

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Transparency Policies in European Public Broadcasters: Sustainability, Digitalisation and Fact-Checking

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Díez²,

López³

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Social Sciences

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Over the last few years, European public broadcasters have promoted the concept of public service media as one of their main values. To this end, transparency policies have been implemented as a mechanism of corporate projection by strengthening their role as an essential service. The objective of this article is to ascertain the existence of this type of policies among European public broadcasters. To this end, a nominal group was made with 24 experts who were surveyed, thus generating new indicators of transparency and accountability strategies around sustainability and digitalization. The contents of the websites of RTVE (Spain), RTP (Portugal), France TV (France), RAI (Italy), BBC (UK), RTÉ (Ireland), ZDF (Germany), VRT (Belgium), and SVT (Sweden) were also analyzed, paying attention to such indicators and strategies. The main results include the identification of differences on the basis of the ideal models described by Hallin and Mancini; a commitment to credibility (fact-checking) to the detriment of diversity of opinions; and a connection between the political system and the media system, which, preliminarily, determines the level of transparency of these public entities.

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Section: Conclusion: Credibility and The Long-standing Tension Between "Control And Independency"supporting

confidence: 86%

Transparency Policies in European Public Broadcasters: Sustainability, Digitalisation and Fact-Checking

Otero¹,

Díez²,

López³

et al. 2021

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“…Various strands of academic scholarship-literature on media regulatory regimes and theories of media systems-highlight the ongoing dialogue regarding the importance of News Ombudspersons as main examples of self-regulatory mechanisms within public media organisations (Ferrell Lowe et al, 2018;Palau-Sampio, 2017;Evers, 2012;see Jacobs et al, 2022, for a discussion on how opinions formulated by ombudspersons are used to operationalize public accountability processes). Self-regulatory bodies such as press councils, media ethics councils or news ombudsperson services within the newsroom are shown to play an important role in protecting the interests of media audiences while also safeguarding the credibility and legitimacy of media organisations (Eberwein et al, 2017;Just et al, 2017;Campos-Freire et al, 2021). The Ombudsperson is an institutional actor that is responsible for acting as an intermediary between the news outlet and the public by addressing complaints, observations and feedback received from a station's viewers and listeners.…”

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Enforcing ethical standards to safeguard the credibility and legitimacy of public media corporations: The role of News Ombudspersons in Spain and France

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J. Infras. Policy. Dev.

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This study introduces a cross-country comparative analysis of the role of News Ombudsperson in the public media corporations in Spain and France. It investigates the specific media self-regulatory processes established to reduce reputational risks and increase the trust and credibility of the media organisations. It aims to fill in the gaps in prior research by applying a qualitative framework developed using indicators derived from scholarly work on regulation and governance and media management. The variables selected for the analysis are extracted from prior interdisciplinary research and focus on media self-regulatory processes, complaints management mechanisms, election, reporting procedures, checks and balances, roles, visibility and transparency of News Ombudspersons in two countries which represent the Polarised Pluralist media system category. Research questions are raised in relation to the main variables identified for the comparative analysis. Data were collected from multiple publicly available international sources, including public media organizations databases, national media regulatory authorities, and academic studies. Results reveal cross-country variations. The systematic investigation of different forms of self-regulatory procedures might lead to concrete recommendations and best practice models for media organizations beyond the European Union. Further research could address the role of media audiences as relevant stakeholders in media governance processes.

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The Governance of Public Service Media for the Internet Society

Cited by 2 publications

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Transparency Policies in European Public Broadcasters: Sustainability, Digitalisation and Fact-Checking

Transparency Policies in European Public Broadcasters: Sustainability, Digitalisation and Fact-Checking

Enforcing ethical standards to safeguard the credibility and legitimacy of public media corporations: The role of News Ombudspersons in Spain and France

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