Robert G. Picard, Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, a research fellow at Green Templeton College (Oxford), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, explains the results of the pilot implementation in the UK of the European Union’s Media Pluralism Monitor.
The UK scores relatively well overall in terms of media pluralism policy and developments, but exhibits significant risk factors worthy of attention, according to a pilot implementation of the EU’s Media Pluralism Monitor.
The monitor is a risk-based assessment tool developed for the European Commission in response to concerns by the European Parliament and Council of the European Union about media pluralism in member states and across Europe. It was created in 2008-2009 and then revised for pilot implementation in 8 countries this year.