Trust in public service media in the Baltic states

Jõesaar, Andres; Rožukalne, Anda; Jastramskis, Deimantas

doi:10.1080/01629778.2022.2127816

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“…The age limit for RTS is unknown or has not been set. with democracy-related concepts such as freedom of expression, independence, and pluralism (Jõesaar, Rožukalne, & Jastramskis, 2022). It is worrying that mainstream news media are increasingly becoming the target of politically motivated attacks from political actors and the so-called alt-right media, particularly as these political actors and media have become more influential over the last decade (Strömbäck, 2021).…”

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Funding of Public Service Media and Its Connection with the Operating of Such Media

Chrencik

2023

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Public service media have reached the point where they need to prove their usefulness and sometimes even justify their existence in commercial-driven markets. One of the main topics for public discourse is how they should be funded, who exactly should pay for them, and consequently, how much people should pay for them. This study offers a comparison of funding models in three different European countries, namely Finland, the Czech Republic, and Serbia and their providers of public service broadcasting-Ylesradio Oy (Finland), Czech Television (the Czech Republic) and Radio Television of Serbia (Serbia). As this paper is mainly concerned about funding, conducted research considers quantitative factors. These countries and providers are compared using several metrics, e.g., viewership, wages, or tax and GDP ratio. Research concluded that, despite they are without any doubts underfunded, public service media in the Czech Republic and Serbia do not necessarily need to increase fee but they need to raise money from the citizens more effectively.

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Section: Value For Moneymentioning

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Funding of Public Service Media and Its Connection with the Operating of Such Media

Chrencik

2023

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Making sense of the COVID-19 crisis: information-seeking practices and attitudes towards information providers among Baltic audiences

Juzefovičs

2023

Journal of Baltic Studies

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Trust and Distrust in Public Service Media: A Case Study from the Czech Republic

Urbániková,

Smejkal

2023

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Although public service media is a trusted island in the media landscape of many countries, trust in public service media is not absolute and universal. This study adopts a qualitative approach to explore what trust and distrust entail for the public, a perspective rarely applied in trust research. Also, it explores the extent to which the sources of trust and distrust are the same and whether the concepts of trust and distrust are identical (only inverse), or linked but separate. It focuses on the Czech Republic, where the level of trust in the news is among the lowest in the world, yet public service media is the most trusted news source (Newman et al., 2022). Based on four focus group discussions with the general public (<em>N</em> = 24), this study analyzes the reasons for the audience’s trust and distrust in Czech public service media. There are three main categories: trust in the message (i.e., people trust public service media if, in their view, it provides objective, truthful, reliable, relevant, and fast information without sensationalism and anti-system views); trust in the source (i.e., people trust public service media if they perceive the public service media journalists as professional); and trust in the public service media organizations (i.e., people trust public service media if they perceive the regulatory framework as effective in ensuring independence from politics and oversight boards as a guarantee for quality). As the reasons leading to trust were not identical (only inverse) to the reasons leading to distrust, our findings suggest that trust and distrust in public service media are not two sides of the same coin.

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Trust in public service media in the Baltic states

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Funding of Public Service Media and Its Connection with the Operating of Such Media

Funding of Public Service Media and Its Connection with the Operating of Such Media

Making sense of the COVID-19 crisis: information-seeking practices and attitudes towards information providers among Baltic audiences

Trust and Distrust in Public Service Media: A Case Study from the Czech Republic

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