Regaining the Initative For Public Service Media

• Public service media is today challenged on every front. Publics and politicians see the commercial approach as the ‘normal’ way to organise broadcasting. There are strong pressures to downsize PSM organisations, to limit investment options, to restrict online and digital operations, to narrow remits to genres and for audiences that are not commercially attractive, and for increasingly intrusive assessment procedures. The principles no longer resonate very widely and there is growing criticism about a decline in distinctiveness. Even among traditional allies, support is flagging and skepticism is growing. In Europe the institution has not yet presented a coherent and convincing strategy attuned for relevance in the 21st century. PSM has lost or is in danger of losing the initiative. At the same time, there are promising efforts to develop PSM in regions and countries lacking a domestic history with PSB – to gain the initiative for building PSM. This 5th RIPE Reader incorporates a wider purview as an outgrowth of proceedings from the RIPE@2010 conference that convened in London 8-11 September to address the theme, Public Service Media After the Recession. The book is divided into four sections, reflecting the varied and distinctive narratives of PSB around the world. CONTENT: Preface Gregory Ferrell Lowe, Jeanette Steemers; Regaining the Initiative for Public Service Media I. Policy Case-Making in the Heartland of PSB Robert G. Picard; The Changing Nature of Political Case-Making for Public Service Broadcasters Lars Nord; Losing the Battle, Winning the War. Public Service Media Debate in Scandinavia 2000-2010 Peter Goodwin; High Noon. The BBC Meets “The West’s Most Daring Government” II. Responding to Environmental Pressures Karen Donders, Caroline Pauwels: Ex Ante Tests. A Means to an End or the End for Public Service Media? David A. L. Levy PSB Policymaking in Comparative Perspective. The BBC and France Télévisions Peter Lunt, Sonia Livingstone, Benedetta Brevini Changing Regimes of Regulation. Implications For Public Service Broadcasting III. Taking the Initiative at the Frontiers of PSM Sally Broughton Micova; Born into Crisis. Public Service Broadcasters in South East Europe Yik Chan Chin, Matthew D. Johnson; Public Cultural Service. New Paradigms of Broadcasting Policy and Reform in the People’s Republic of China Julio Juárez-Gámiz, Gregory Ferrell Lowe;Breaking the Mold with New Media. Making Way for a Public Service Provider in Mexico? Naomi Sakr; Public Service Initiatives in Arab Media Today IV. Public Service Media in Practice Steven Barnett; Broadcast Journalism and Impartiality in the Digital Age. Six Fallacies and a Counter-Factual James Bennett, Paul Kerr; A 360° Public Service Sector? The Role of Independent Production in the UK’s Public Service Broadcasting Landscape Piet Bakker; Expectations, Experiences & Exceptions. Promises and Realities of Participation on Websites The Authors

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