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Public Media and Political Independence: Lessons for the Future of Journalism From Around the World
Profiles how fourteen nations fund and protect the autonomy of public media via multiyear funding, public-linked funding structures, charters, laws, and agencies or boards designed to limit political influence and ensure spending in the public interest
Compulsory loyalty? Accountability, citizenship and the BBC
Este artigo localiza os debates contemporĂąneos sobre governança e accountability de serviços pĂșblicos de televisĂŁo e radiodifusĂŁo no contexto dos debates no Reino Unido sobre a renovação do Canal BBC. Parte-se da noção sugerida por Warnock (1974) de accountability como o fornecimento de informação e a habilidade de exercer sançÔes e das distinçÔes propostas por Hirschman (1970) e Thompson (2003) entre saĂda, voz e lealdade e formas de governança hierĂĄrquica, de mercado e de rede. Como accountability pode ser exercida em contextos definidos por Hirschman e Thompson e qual Ă© o papel da confiança (OâNeill, 2002)? Em oposição ao modelo âforteâ da concepção normativa de consumidor (Peacock 1986, Potter 1988, Sargant 1992 e 1993) como um usuĂĄrio capaz de fazer com que instituiçÔes se mantenham responsivas em um mercado em bom uncionamento, em serviços de radiodifusĂŁo o cidadĂŁo Ă© concebido (de acordo com Marshall 1981) meramente como um objeto âfracoâ da distribuição de bem-estar ao invĂ©s de um agente ativo capaz de manter os difusores responsivos. Em conseqĂŒĂȘncia, as propostas do governo britĂąnico para um novo modelo de governança da BBC talvez sejam consideradas inadequadas para atender demandas contemporĂąneas para melhorar a accountability de serviços pĂșblicos
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âPlease send us your moneyâ: The BBCâs evolving relationship with charitable causes, fundraising and humanitarian appeals
Fundraising for charitable causes has had a key place in the BBCâs schedule since the earliest days of the corporation and the establishment of the weekly radio appeal. As new forms of fundraising through high-profile media events developed in the 1980s, raising unprecedentedly large sums for charity, the BBC had to adjust the way it negotiated with good causes and audiences. These changes coincided with professionalization and rapid growth of the NGO sector, which sought to elicit funds from a wider public using innovative techniques and new ways of reaching out through the media. This article uses internal BBC documents to examine how, against this rapidly changing background, the organization navigated the rules behind broadcasting of appeals. This includes the way that the BBC interacted with the Disasters Emergency Committee that had been established in the 1960s to provide an interface between broadcasters and charities to oversee exceptional fundraising for international causes. In some cases, the BBC faced difficulties in reconciling its duty to educate audiences about charitable causes with the fundraising imperative which relied on TV extravaganzas. In other cases, the BBC confronted the question of whether it was hosting a global fundraising event or simply covering an event organized by others. These kinds of emerging challenges which arose out of new innovations in fundraising via broadcasting produced interesting debates that are still evolving both within the charitable sector and in the way it relates to the media. The BBCâs role within this ecology provides some illuminating insights about the issues connected with raising funds for humanitarian causes
Delivering a Public Service? The BBC Asian Network and British Asian audiences.
This thesis examines how minority ethnic producers employed by the BBC Asian Network, the BBCâs only ethnic specific digital radio station, construct a distinctive audience for the broadcaster. The study looks at the challenges, barriers and conflicts that have emerged as a consequence of BBC strategic attempts to make the radio station relevant for younger British Asian listeners. This research sets out to fill a gap regarding the experiences of ethnic staff working within a public service remit. This type of study is necessary because evidence suggests the number of Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff working in the media remain small and this impacts the views articulated in the media.
The study combines a production studies approach with a grounded theory framework for the analysis of thirty in-depth interviews with editors, producers and presenters working at the BBC Asian Network. Three different audience strategies are examined from the perspective of staff working at the station: 2006 young strategy, 2009 friend of the family and 2016, young digital native. What is also exposed through the in-depth interviews is the existence of an internal divide between two groups of minority ethic staff; the older traditional British Asian staff members who are concerned about the dilution of âAsianâ identity, and the younger group, comprised of third or fourth generation British Asians, who are likely to be integrated and better placed to promote a broad vision of British Asian identity. The interviews illustrate that a rigid gatekeeping system limits the dissemination of original journalism about the British Asian communities because the wider BBC ignores or marginalises the expertise and stories pitched by minority ethnic journalists working at the BBC Asian Network. Therefore, this thesis evaluates how the BBC as a public service broadcaster, articulates and manages issues pertaining to race and ethnicity within the organisation.
The study is significant and timely, because the BBC as a public service broadcaster, is under increased pressure since the Charter Renewal in 2016, to demonstrate that it is taking diversity seriously, and meet its own self-imposed diversity initiatives; in terms of the recruitment of staff from minority backgrounds, both on-air and behind the scenes, and improve the representation of minority groups in content. This study explores the BBCâs endeavours to attract minority listeners through music, news and programme content on the contemporary BBC Asian Network. The study focuses upon a period of time between 2006 and 2018
The most creative organization in the world? The BBC, 'creativity' and managerial style
The managerial styles of two BBC directors-general, John Birt and Greg Dyke, have often been contrasted but not so far analysed from the perspective of their different views of 'creative management'. This article first addresses the orthodox reading of 'Birtism'; second, it locates Dyke's 'creative' turn in the wider context of fashionable neo-management theory and UK government creative industries policy; third, it details Dyke's drive to change the BBC's culture; and finally, it concludes with some reflections on the uncertainties inherent in managing a creative organisation
"A step into the abyss" Transmedia in the UK Games and Television Industries
This article uses a media industries studies perspective to investigate the current state of transmedia production in the UK. Analysing the discursive statements of a range of industry participants from both UK television and games industries, the article reveals a series of contradictions and misunderstandings that may be limiting the effectiveness of multi-platform projects. By comparing overlapping discursive patterns around attitudes to risk, measures of success, authorship between the two industries, and repeated concerns over the balance of creative and commercial imperatives, the article argues that existing hierarchies of power between media industries threaten to derail future convergence
From television to multi-platform: less from more or more for less?
This article examines economic aspects of convergence and of multi-platform expansion
in the media sector. Focusing on television broadcasters in the UK, it analyses the recent
migration of conventional media towards multi-platform strategies and asks whether digitization
is making content delivery more resourceâintensive than before or whether it is facilitating greater
efficiency. Findings suggest that adaptation to a multi-platform outlook on the part of conventional
media requires investment in staffing and re-versioning of content. Funding this, especially in a
period of economic downturn, has encouraged a more selective approach towards content, with
concomitant implications for diversity. Notwithstanding generally low commercial returns from
online activities so far, the potential economic advantages to be had from multi-platform are
significant. The experience of UK broadcasters suggests a well-executed â360-degreeâ approach to
commissioning and distribution will increase the value that can be realized from any given universe
of content, partly because of extended opportunities for consumption of that content, but also
because modes of engagement in a digital multi-platform context allow for an improved audience
experience and for better signalling of audience preferences back to suppliers
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Digital switchover and the role of the new BBC services in digital television take-up
This paper discusses the process of digital switchover and assesses the role the BBC services have played in driving overall digital take-up and therefore bringing forward the likely date of analogue switch-off. The first part examines the advantages and drawbacks of digital switchover, and identifies a number of challenges and policy dilemmas of making switchover an achievable objective. Part two presents an overview of current developments of digital television in the UK and outlines various measures proposed for encouraging digital take-up. The third and final part deals with the contribution of the new BBC services to digital take-up, considers free terrestrial platform Freeview's likely effect on commercial rivals, and assesses the effectiveness of the proposed free satellite platform FreeSat to accelerate digital adoption. The paper concludes that the new digital BBC services have played a significant role in enhancing consumer interest in DTV services. Copyright © Sage Publications
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