The European Union and PSM in Troubled Democracies: A Bridge Too Far?

Llorens, Carles

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02710-0_3

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“…Finally, independence and governance are the least frequently mentioned aspects despite PSM independence is now among Europe's most pressing issues (Llorens, 2019). Differences are found between the models of Hallin and Mancini (2004) and more developed policy proposals are located in the polarised pluralist model, although its effectiveness is doubted, due to the failures of public tendering procedures for the management of public service media in Italy and Spain.…”

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European policy proposals to meet the challenge of public service media

2022

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El nuevo escenario mediático está provocando una crisis de legitimidad de los medios de comunicación de servicio público (PSM). Ahora que varios países se plantean reformas, este trabajo analiza las propuestas sobre PSM de los partidos políticos de Europa Occidental en las últimas elecciones nacionales hasta 2021. Para ello, se basa en un análisis de contenido de los programas electorales y en entrevistas semiestructuradas con expertos. Los resultados confirman que los PSM aparecen en las propuestas electorales, aunque con atención desigual según los contextos políticos. Las principales diferencias se observan en la gobernanza y la financiación, ambas relacionadas con la independencia. También se detectan cambios en el discurso de algunos partidos populistas.

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“…Additionally, media “increasingly act as independent agents that simultaneously pursue and follow their own institutional and organizational goals, orientations, and values” (Frandsen, 2020, p. 8). The emergence of digital networks, technologies, and devices prompted the renaming of public service broadcasters to public service media (PSM), as well as their conceptual shift from being a universal service to “providing the means for universal services because, in a world of fragmented audiences, it is necessary to go beyond radio and television to reach all audiences everywhere” (Llorens, 2019, p. 45). This shift coincides with the transformations of media, society, and technology that is characteristic of mediatization (Hepp, 2020; Krotz, 2014).…”

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“…Fueled by the rapid evolution of technology, the massive growth of commercial digital media platforms has exacerbated the challenges already experienced by PSM (Llorens, 2019). Already less nimble due to its duty to provide contents that are unprofitable but culturally important (e.g., art music, and children’s programming), many broadcasters in the Western Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe face political pressure and interference, challenges to the legitimacy of license fees, and other financial pressures that influence agendas and threaten editorial independence (Castro Herrero et al, 2021; Marko, 2019; Milosavljević, 2021; Šimunjak, 2016).…”

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A Public Service? Mediatization of the Olympic Games in Croatia and Slovenia

Ličen

Antunovic

Bartoluci

2022

Communication & Sport

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The Olympic Games are the largest mediated sporting mega-event, and broadcasters are instrumental in ensuring their exposure and financial viability. In the digital era, the Olympics navigate technological and societal changes that contest the values of sport, carry political and economic implications, and shape the relationship between the organizers and nation states. These interdependencies vary by global regions. This study examines the mediatization of sport as manifested in digital Olympic content published on Facebook during the Tokyo Olympics by public service media (PSM) in Croatia and Slovenia—two countries inconsistently assigned to either Central and Eastern Europe or Southeast Europe. These PSM face a host of challenges, including rising media rights costs, digitalization, and political interference, while continuing to broadcast the Olympics. On their Facebook pages, contest-related updates were the primary type of content, general news and especially human interest content was rare, critical posts were virtually non-existent, and “home” athletes were politicized conspicuously. Mediatization in this region seems delayed, facilitates event-focused and decontextualized sport content, and appears central in promoting patriotic narratives. On social media, broadcasters perpetuate problematic practices characteristic of sport media and only partially fulfill the roles traditionally ascribed to PSM.

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“…Beyond the challenges posed by the political dynamics of crisis, dramatically intensified global competition for audiences and revenue in the digital age, subjection to neoliberalising structural reforms (Steemers, 1999: 50) and political instrumentalisation in liberal and illiberal European states (Llorens, 2019) have cast into increasingly sharp relief the survival imperative of renewed, effective strategies of institutional legitimation for PSM.…”

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Shock to the system? Journalism in Irish public service media after the crash

Cullinane

2020

Irish Journal of Sociology

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The political and economic disjunctures associated with the 2008 financial crisis and the policy responses to it have coincided with the deepening of professional journalism’s cultural crisis of authority and legitimacy, associated with declining public confidence in the hegemonic norms underpinning journalism practice. This paper presents the findings of research undertaken in the newsroom of Ireland’s main public service media organisation aimed at exploring the durability of key tenets of journalistic professionalism as its practitioners negotiated the crisis. In demonstrating evidence from interview testimony of limited editorial responses to crisis, enduring support for dominant professional norms and prevailing practices of representation, inclusion and participation, the findings are suggestive of a broad normative resilience in the face of crisis. Such stability, it is argued, reflects the ideological enmeshment of public service media and journalistic professionalism within the political and cultural systems of their host states but offers few resources for extricating public service journalism from deepening professional and institutional cultural crises.

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The European Union and PSM in Troubled Democracies: A Bridge Too Far?

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

European policy proposals to meet the challenge of public service media

European policy proposals to meet the challenge of public service media

A Public Service? Mediatization of the Olympic Games in Croatia and Slovenia

Shock to the system? Journalism in Irish public service media after the crash

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