Online Conference: The Future of Public Service Media

Hosted by:
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Programme:

The future of public service media: An introduction. Slavko Splichal, vice-president, Development Council at SASA
Public service media as a citizen and democracy-oriented project: Is there a mismatch between theory, the law and practice? Karen Donders, Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Director of Public Value, Talent and Organisation at Flemish public broadcaster VRT
“Optimization of remit and structure”: Process, parameter, and problems of a draft media law in Germany. Barabara Thomass, Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, member of the ZDF Board of Directors
How to create public value: Independent. Accountable. Distinctive. Klaus Unterberger, Head of the Public Value Department of ORF, Vienna
PSM: Challenges to the arms-length principle in online environment. Hannu Nieminen, Professor at University of Helsinki
Public service media in Sweden. Jonas Ohlsson, Professor at the University of Gothenburg and Director of the Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research (NORDICOM)
Securing a strong BBC and its relevance to other PSBs. Steven Barnett, Professor at the University of Westminster
Hungarian media in the postcommunist autocracy. Maria Heller, Professor at Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), Budapest
The digital transformation of PSB and implications for governance. Maria Michalis, co-President of the International Association of Public Media Researchers (IAPMR), associate professor at the University of Westminster
Discussion and Conclusions