Emerging Transparency Systems for News Governance to Protect Media Independence and Credibility in the Digital Infosphere

IF 0.2 Q4 LAW
Elena Herrero-Beaumont
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Abstract Media capture and disinformation are two problems that exist in all media markets with greater or lesser extent. The current digital context is helping to exacerbate these problems, which represent the two main threats to the public's right to be informed in a constitutional democracy. The current legal-constitutional frameworks to protect the public’s right to information across EU jurisdictions are no longer effective in guaranteeing two elements associated with this fundamental right: the independence of the media and the duty of truthfulness of journalists. As a solution to this problem, a system of transparency of media companies to reinforce these two elements may become a complementary tool to effectively guarantee the right to information. In this context, a number of voluntary transparency systems of news media organizations are emerging in the European Union and the United States to strengthen media independence and editorial credibility. In this article I first describe and compare these systems by using criteria associated with effective transparency policies. Then I identify standards that are common to all the initiatives focusing on news governance and I evaluate how these standards are being already implemented by a sample of five Anglo American media brands that are enjoying the credibility of their users evidenced by the increasing levels of subscription rates.
新兴的新闻治理透明体系,以保护数字信息领域的媒体独立性和可信度
摘要媒体捕获和虚假信息是所有媒体市场或多或少存在的两个问题。当前的数字环境加剧了这些问题,这是宪政民主社会公众知情权面临的两大威胁。目前欧盟司法管辖区保护公众知情权的法律-宪法框架不再有效地保障与这一基本权利相关的两个要素:媒体的独立性和记者的真实性义务。作为解决这一问题的办法,媒体公司的透明制度可以强化这两个要素,成为有效保障知情权的互补工具。在这方面,欧洲联盟和美国正在出现一些新闻媒介组织的自愿透明度制度,以加强媒介的独立性和编辑的可信度。在本文中,我首先通过使用与有效透明度策略相关的标准来描述和比较这些系统。然后,我确定了所有关注新闻治理的倡议的共同标准,并通过五个英美媒体品牌的样本评估了这些标准是如何实施的,这些品牌正在享受用户的可信度,这一点可以从订阅率的不断提高中得到证明。
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期刊介绍: The societal, cultural, economic and political dimensions of communication, including the freedoms of speech and press, are undergoing dramatic global changes. The convergence of the mass media, telecommunications, and computers has raised important questions reflected in analyses of modern communication law, policy, and regulation. Serving as a forum for discussions of these continuing and emerging questions, Communication Law and Policy considers traditional and contemporary problems of freedom of expression and dissemination, including theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues inherent in the special conditions presented by new media and information technologies.
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