In:
Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, Intellect, Vol. 11, No. 2 ( 2020-07-01), p. 261-268
Kurzfassung:
In this commentary, we discuss how five prominent media development organizations (BBC Media Action, Council of Europe, DWA, PMA and UNESCO) define public service broadcasting (PSB)/public service media (PSM) and how they envisage its role and functions in their recent projects and reports. In view of the increasing challenges of the current media landscape, international donors are looking at models to provide a path to independent media and journalism and several international organizations support projects and institutional arrangements they label PSB/PSM. However, given the fundamental questions that existing PSBs face, is PSB a meaningful tool for media development? And how do these various advocates for PSB/PSM understand the concept and why do they feel that it is worth supporting? We find that there seems to have been a shift, common to all five organizations, towards defining PSB/PSM in terms of public service ethos, and we explain why this should be seen as a welcome development.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1757-2681
,
1757-269X
DOI:
10.1386/iscc_00023_7
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Intellect
Publikationsdatum:
2020
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