RT Journal Article
T1 Transparency Policies in European Public Broadcasters: Sustainability, Digitalisation and Fact-Checking
A1 Rivera Otero, José Manuel
A1 Lagares Díez, Nieves
A1 Pereira López, María
A1 López López, Paulo Carlos
K1 Public television
K1 Transparency
K1 Sustainability
K1 Digitalization
K1 Fake news
K1 Fact-checking
K1 Journalism
K1 Public services
K1 Political news
AB Over the last few years, European public broadcasters have promoted the concept of public service media as one of their main values. To this end, transparency policies have been implemented as a mechanism of corporate projection by strengthening their role as an essential service. The objective of this article is to ascertain the existence of this type of policies among European public broadcasters. To this end, a nominal group was made with 24 experts who were surveyed, thus generating new indicators of transparency and accountability strategies around sustainability and digitalization. The contents of the websites of RTVE (Spain), RTP (Portugal), France TV (France), RAI (Italy), BBC (UK), RTÉ (Ireland), ZDF (Germany), VRT (Belgium), and SVT (Sweden) were also analyzed, paying attention to such indicators and strategies. The main results include the identification of differences on the basis of the ideal models described by Hallin and Mancini; a commitment to credibility (fact-checking) to the detriment of diversity of opinions; and a connection between the political system and the media system, which, preliminarily, determines the level of transparency of these public entities
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26709
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26709
LA eng
NO Soc. Sci. 2021, 10(6), 217; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060217
NO The results of this research are part of the work of the “Equipo de Investigaciones Políticas” (USC). It is also part of the project “Nuevos valores, gobernanza, financiación y servicios audiovisuales públicos para la sociedad de Internet: contrastes europeos y españoles” (2019–2021) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-096065-B-I00)
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026