[ecrea] New Nordicom Book - Regaining the Initiative for Public Service Media

   *Regaining the Initiative for Public Service Media.     RIPE@2011
   *Editors: Gregory Ferrell Lowe, Jeanette Steemers
   Nordicom, 2012, 257 p. - ISBN 978-91-86523-33-6, (Research
   Anthologies and Monographs)

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   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.

   *Contents
   *
   *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
   **
   **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





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