Transparency in Portuguese media

From the buzzword to the unsolved regulatory challenge

Bibliographic Data

ID21765397
AuthorsCarla Baptista (0000-0002-8188-3567, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume16
Issue2
Publication date2022-06-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueObservatorio (OBS (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1646-5954 • E-ISSN: 1646-5954
PublisherInstituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15847/obsobs16220221952
OpenAlexW4293242979
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Transparency is a long-discussed term in journalism. It has been conceptualized as an evolving professional value, a political issue, and a regulatory challenge. In the disinformed digital age, became a rescue criterion to rebuild a credible relationship with the public based on trustworthiness. Transparency urges for holistic approaches, due to its inherent instability and variability across media systems; political, economic, and regulatory frameworks; and editorial cultures. This article analyses media transparency from a local perspective, departing from the launching of the Platform of Transparency by the Portuguese Media Authority (ERC). The Portuguese case stands in a European space deprived of international standards to assess media transparency, even if the concept is broadly discursively constructed as a key element of media pluralism. An increasingly fragmented media landscape degrades ethical standards based on shared values and favors the des activation of transparency as a disruptive transforming professional practice. The benevolent Portuguese initiative may provide political legitimacy to a narrowed version of media transparency, confined to issues of accountability and assumptions of political independence. Will the prevailing “fortress newsroom” (Smith, 2005; Meier 2009) survive to a transparent account department

Accountability · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Public relations · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Government, Law, and Information Management · Law · Media Studies and Communication

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