My interview this morning with Erik Fichtelius started with a misunderstanding: I had implied that he had come from the party press, when in fact he had been a foreign correspondent with Aftonbladet - hardly the same thing. He went further though, and said that I had the wrong outlook on journalism in Sweden: the […]
Former SVT CEO Christina Jutterström has suggested that SR and SVT should be merged, arguing that separate radio and television companies are an anachronism in the modern age. Current SVT CEO Eva Hamilton says it’s a “political question” , which is a polite way of saying that SVT is interested; SR CEO Kerstin Brunnberg rejects […]
Despite the awful (brutalist) architecture outside, I spent an enjoyable afternoon being shown around Sveriges Television (SVT) today. The building itself - the TV-hus - is large, with six stages and a large props department. The wisdom of having stages, carpentry and costume teams in what is relatively expensive real estate north of Djurgarden and […]
Establishment of public broadcasters by charters has its upsides and its downsides.
Upsides: it maintains the independence of the broadcaster.
Downsides: I have to read through Sweden’s 1996 Television and Radio Law, the 2007 Licence Agreement, and the Supplement to the Licence Agreement, before finding that none of them contain anything on the governance of SVT.
Thankfully, this […]
I’m currently waiting on the data from Journalist ‘05, a regular (every five years) survey of Swedish journalists, which are as I write being turned into book form by Prof. Kent Asp and colleagues. In the meantime, here are some results from the 2000 survey:
Public
Journalists
SVT Journalists
Left
15
31
33
Social Democrats
32
27
23
Centre
4
3
2
People’s Party
5
14
17
Moderates
25
10
6
Greens
6
10
14
Christian Democrats
13
5
5
Journalists in general are more left-libertarian […]
Eva Hamilton, SVT’s Head of Fiction, was last Friday appointed Director General of the Swedish public broadcaster. With experience in SVT’s News department, she comes to SVT after having worked for Aftonbladet (”independent social democrat”) and Svenska Dagbladet (”independent, conservative”) [Source for these judgements: BBC Media monitoring].
I’m hoping to include Sveriges Television as one of my cases in my PhD. I had thought that Nordic stoicism might make SVT less interesting than, say, Rai or RTVE. Not if Rapport keeps putting out news like this it won’t be.
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