Audience Expectations of Media Accountability in the Netherlands

Richard van der Wurff; Klaus Schönbach

doi:10.1080/1461670X.2013.801679

Audience Expectations of Media Accountability in the Netherlands

Richard van der Wurff^*, Klaus Schönbach

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Abstract

Citizens in the Netherlands demand that news media are transparent and responsive to audiences. But above all, the population expects journalism to adopt a more professional manner of self-regulation in order to strengthen news quality. These are the main findings from a large-scale representative survey-the first of its kind-on audience perceptions of news media accountability. Additional results show that citizens are interested in news, but not in the workings of journalism. Only a minority wants to be actively involved in journalism and its accountability mechanisms. This explains why the audience supports a professional liability model of news media accountability rather than a model based on social dialogue.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	121-137
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journalism Studies
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2013.801679
State	Published - Mar 1 2014

Keywords

audience
ethics
journalism
media accountability
professionalization
The Netherlands

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Communication

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