Public Service Media in Europe ─ A Comparative Approach

Public Service Media in Europe looks at the early establishment of public service media as the main media in many countries before charting its transformation and evolution in recent years. The book explores how these changes depend partly on its autonomy from or dependency on the political power in different national contexts, but also varying funding conditions, European market integration policies, digitisation processes and structural changes in what has become a more and more market-oriented media landscape. Public Service Media will be useful for both students and researchers in public service media, political communication, international media and comparative media.

Karen Arriaza Ibarra is Professor of Audiovisual Communication at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She is author of several books on ICTs, media structure and European media. A permanent member in the editorial boards of six communication journals, she also participates as guest professor in several universities. Her research focuses on European public service media, media structure, political communication, and media economy.

Eva Nowak is Professor of Journalism at Jade University in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Her research focuses on international media systems, media freedom and pluralism, communication policy and professionalization in the media. In 2013 she was a research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. She co-editedPress Freedom and Pluralism in Europe (2009).

Raymond Kuhn is Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is a specialist in the fields of British and French political communication and media policy, and has published widely on French media policy and political communication. His most recent book is The Media in Contemporary France (2011).