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In each issue of our newsletter, the research round-up draws your attention to a particular topic that can resonate among PSM scholars and practitioners. Heritiana Ranaivoson,\u00a0Sally Broughton Micova and Tim Raats (Eds.) | This edited volume presents both a comprehensive overview and a critical analysis of the shifts brought about by the 2018 revision of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), which has been considered as a key starting point for a more decisive EU stance on media issues, particularly vis-\u00e0-vis platform power. Its 14 chapters cover issues such as the AVMSD’s approach to\u00a0media ownership transparency and regulatory independence, its implications for video-sharing platforms and signal integrity, as well as specific regulatory tools such as\u00a0\u201cNetflix taxes\u201d and content quotas. “European Audiovisual Policy in Transition” thus provides an invaluable insight into the key developments set out in the AVMSD reform and the political processes that brought it about. Christina Holtz-Bacha | European Journal of Communication, 2023<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This article chronicles how, since the 2010s, the EU has begun to complement its traditional competition law-driven, economic approach to media issues with initiatives aimed at strengthening media pluralism and emphasizing the role of the media in democratic societies.\u00a0Tracing the EU’s impotence in the face of Hungary’s 2011 controversial media law, Holtz-Bacha outlines the subsequent reorientation of EU media policy, decisively pushed by the European Parliament. The article \u2013\u00a0published before the final adoption of the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), but discussing its draft\u00a0\u2013 sets out the EU Commission’s attempts\u00a0to test the limits of its legal scope in the face of media freedom violations in member states. It concludes that Brussels’ room for intervention in media issues has so far remained rather limited. Marius Dragomir, Marta Rodr\u00edguez Castro and Minna Aslama Horowitz | Assessing the impact of the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the 2024 European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) in reducing the risks for PSM in the face of increasing platform power, the authors conclude that the three acts do not adequately respond to current challenges for PSM funding and independence. Based on a qualitative thematic analysis, the article provides a concise overview of how these three pieces of legislation, as well as the 1997 Amsterdam Protocol, have affected or, in the case of the newly adopted EMFA, will likely affect PSM. It also considers how platformization challenges PSM values and how the EU’s regulatory responses may mitigate these threats.\u00a0With regard to the EMFA, the authors argue that despite its guarantees of PSM independence, these provisions will have limited impact due to the autonomy in PSM matters granted to EU member states in the Amsterdam Protocol.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n International Press Institute & Media and Journalism Research Center | 2024<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In each issue of our newsletter, the research round-up draws your attention to a particular topic that can resonate among PSM scholars and practitioners. In this issue, we take a look at research on recent shifts in media policy at\u00a0 the European level. 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In this issue, we take a look at research on recent shifts in media policy at\u00a0 the European level. With the 2018 revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA), the 2022 Digital Markets Act (DMA), and, most recently, the 2024 European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), media issues seem to have gained prominence in EU politics. At the same time, recurrent attempts by governments to capture the media in member states such as Slovakia (see our interview with Peter Han\u00e1k<\/a>) have once again raised questions about the enforceability of EU regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Routledge, 2023<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nEuropean Audiovisual Policy in Transition<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Read the book\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nFreedom of the media, pluralism, and transparency. European media policy on new paths?<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Read the full article\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Journalism and Media, 2024<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nPublic Service Media and Platformization: What Role Does EU Regulation Play?<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Read the full paper\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMeasuring media capture in the EU: The Media Capture Monitoring Report project<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The International Press Institute<\/a> (IPI) and the Media and Journalism Research Center<\/a>\u00a0have recently launched a new series of annual reports that will analyze the extent of media capture in EU member states and measure their compliance with the standards of media regulation established by the EMFA. The Media Capture Monitoring Report (MCMR) includes an assessment of the editorial and functional independence of PSM organizations and of the autonomy of national media regulators. The first reports on\u00a0Romania<\/a>,\u00a0Hungary<\/a>,\u00a0Slovakia<\/a>\u00a0and Greece<\/a> have just been published,\u00a0with three additional country reports expected to follow shortly.
Read more about the project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"