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Directors-General of European PSBs

Measures of central bank independence have sometimes used the rate of turnover of Central Bank Governors as an indicator of de facto independence (which, it turns out, is reasonably strongly correlated with de jure independence). How does it work for PSBs? The following table gives the average time in post of a number of PSB […]

Posted 23 November 2006 † Chris § nhk § orf § france § japan § finland § nrk § yle § lottizzazione § turnover § canada § austria § norway § france televisions § appointments ‡ Comments (0)

Morgan Poll on media bias in Australia

As part of my doctorate, I’m researching the political independence of public service broadcasters. This is a difficult concept to define, much less measure. One approach is to ask people whether they perceive the broadcaster to be independent - or impartial, or biased. (The latter two are very different to the former, but may be […]

Posted 14 July 2006 † Chris § abc § polling § public opinion § monitoring ‡ Comments (0)