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Management and monitoring bodies of public service media (PSM) should reinforce and guarantee of independence of public audiovisual services. This paper aims at analyzing the governance bodies of the EU28 PSM, as well as checking whether they meet the criteria established by the EBU as regards transparency and independence. We used as research method the content analysis of the latest audiovisual acts in the European Union and the most recent reviews of their charters.
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The work is part of the R + D research project CSO2015-66543-P, belonging to the National Program for Encouraging Excellent Scientific and Technical Research, national subprogram of knowledge creation from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, entitled “Indicators related to broadcasters’ governance, funding, accountability, innovation, quality and public service applicable to Spain in the digital context”. Also, it is part of the Prometeo Program, which belongs to the National Secretary of High Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation (SENESCYT) of the Ecuadorian government, and is developed at the Technical University of Loja and the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador - Ibarra headquarters-.
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Fernández-Lombao, T., Valencia-Bermúdez, A., López-Cepeda, A. (2017). Independence: The Cornerstone of Public Service Media Governance. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56541-5_14
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