July 10, 2019 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Felix Simon
"Ibiza-gate" - the scandal that led to the collapse of the Austrian government - speaks volumes about the animosity harboured by right-wing populists towards public broadcasters....
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April 19, 2018 •
Digital News, Media Economics, Newsroom Management, Recent, Research •
by Caroline Lees
Public service media organisations across Europe are investing in dedicated social media teams to deliver news to younger and hard-to-reach audiences. While recognising the usefulness of social media, many also see a tension between public...
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March 21, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics, Recent, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Raluca Radu
This is the second part of a two part study, comparing Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM). In a first article on the subject, we found that PSM’s budgets vary enormously across Europe and organisations do not share a common financial...
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August 14, 2017 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics •
by Raluca Radu
A study of Europe’s Public Service Media (PSM) has revealed the 2008 global financial crisis forced some public broadcasters to make significant strategic changes to policy, funding and content while others were barely affected. It found...
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November 14, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
The connections between media and politics are deeply rooted in the Italian society and it seems very difficult to separate them, even without the media baron Silvio Berlusconi as the head of the Italian government. This is one of the...
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March 1, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Spiegel Online’s pre-election coverage last week was not wrong, yet somehow it missed the decisive point in its pull quote: “A clown, a billionaire, an apparatchik and a professor who understands nothing of politics: One of these men...
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