Volume 57 (2024), Edition 2

In view of a perceived crisis of legitimacy of public service broadcasting (PSB) and societal debates concerning its functional mandate, this article examines the integration mandate of PSB. It examines how the use of PSB is related to perceived...

Public service broadcasting in Europe is under pressure. Right-wing populist parties have a considerable share in this development. The article aims to show why public service broadcasting in particular is the target of populist criticism. The...

Based on the conflicts that arise for journalism due to platformization, the article presents an approach with which it should be possible to justify, in terms of media ethics, whether and how public service media (PSM) may create content for...

Budget levy, license fee, tax financing - public service media in Europe are financed in very different ways. This overview article presents the most important forms of PSM financing in Europe and discusses their advantages and disadvantages in...

In the digital age public broadcasters must align their structures and content cross-medially. Whether they succeed in this cross-media transformation depends, among other things, on the success of their change management. How Südwestrundfunk (SWR)...

In January 2024, the Council for the Future presented its recommendations for the future development of public service broadcasting in Germany. What are the priorities and how should they proceed from here? In two articles, ZDF Director General...

The debates, differentiations and dimensions of public media institutions have been part of an intense debate for years, not only in Germany - in the private sector, among the (political) public and in the media industry itself. These debates are...

The article outlines the increasing role of short video platforms such as TikTok for science communication. Based on a content and multimodal video analysis, the study provides information on how TikTok is used by different actors for science...

The Catholic press in Poland is known for its biased reporting and thus disregards the journalistic principle of objectivity. A quantitative content analysis was used to investigate whether and to what extent the Catholic weekly publications...

The “Eastern Christian Studies Online Campus” (www.ku.de/ecsonca) is a multimedia online platform on the cultural heritage of Eastern Christianity with innovative teaching formats, international research projects and creative transfer services....