Monthly Archives: September 2011
Instrumentalization in Italian Journalism
By Paolo Mancini
Television coverage of the Marcegaglia case demonstrated the traditional partisanship of Italian news media: this is what the new report by the Osservatorio di Pavia shows.
This coverage also confirms two other deeply rooted habits of Italian journalism. … Read more
Mapping government advertising: good practices to inform the government of Bhutan
By Rob Grabow
This report looks at efforts by governments around the world to use advertising to support local media. It was written in 2010 by five graduate students at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs under the supervision … Read more
Conference: Future or Funeral – The Dual System at a Crossroads, Defining Legislative Standards for the Survivability of Public Service Media
Additional material from the conference Future or Funeral?: The Dual System at a Crossroads — Defining Legislative Standards for the Survivability of Public Service Media, Jan 22–23 2010, in Warsaw
Including:
Keynote speech by Doris Pack, MEP and Chairwoman Culture and … Read more
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Future or Funeral? A Guide to Public Service Media Regulation in Europe
By Olaf Steenfadt
Within the EU, public funds worth more than twenty billion Euros are spent on public media each year. The European Commission calls it the third largest sector of state aid, after agriculture and transport. The underlying mechanisms, however, … Read more
Analyzing the ‘Italian anomaly’ in television news
By Mark Thompson
The political capture of national television news in Italy has been alleged and debated for many years. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dominates broadcasting to a degree that is unique in western Europe and has few parallels anywhere on … Read more