Public Service Media in Divided Societies: Relic or Renaissance?
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 28 pp.
Series: Policy Briefing, 15
Signature commbox: 10-Cooperation-E 2015
"Argues that renewed energy and resources should be invested in strategies that support media systems rooted in public service values of trust, independence, universality and putting the public interest before all others. Despite formidable challenges, support strategies should include a revitalised and more imaginative focus on supporting the reform of state broadcasters to help them become editorially and financially independent public service broadcasters." (Executive summary)
1 A media revolution: Waves of change, 4
2 Fragmented media, fractured states, 5
3 A crisis of trust, 7
4 State broadcasters: Too biased to trust, too big to ignore, 8
5 The special relevance of public service broadcasting to 21st-century divided societies, 11
6 The prospects for transforming state to public service broadcasters, 14
7 Are there alternative models to providing trusted, impartial, universally accessible media? 19
8 From public service broadcasting to public service media in the 21st century, 21
2 Fragmented media, fractured states, 5
3 A crisis of trust, 7
4 State broadcasters: Too biased to trust, too big to ignore, 8
5 The special relevance of public service broadcasting to 21st-century divided societies, 11
6 The prospects for transforming state to public service broadcasters, 14
7 Are there alternative models to providing trusted, impartial, universally accessible media? 19
8 From public service broadcasting to public service media in the 21st century, 21
