Transparency in Public Service Television Broadcasters

López-López, Paulo Carlos; Golán, Mónica López; Ulloa-Erazo, Nancy

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91860-0_3

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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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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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