Chris Hanretty

'australia' Category

• Apr

  01

  2009

  Nominees to board of ABC

  From ABC:
  Julianne Schultz and Michael Lynch are the first two directors to be appointed to the ABC board under a new process implemented by the Federal Government to make the system more transparent.
  Dr Schultz is the founding editor of the Griffith Review and is a Professor at the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at [...]

  posted in abc, appointments, australia by Chris

• Nov

  23

  2006

  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 in appointments, australia, austria, canada, finland, france, france televisions, japan, lottizzazione, nhk, norway, nrk, orf, turnover, yle by Chris

• Jul

  14

  2006

  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 in abc, australia, monitoring, polling, public opinion by Chris