ABSTRACT
Public service media (PSM) have enjoyed a continued presence as mainstream media in many European media scapes. At the same time, these institutions’ positions in society and relationships with relevant partners including politics, the market and the citizenry have undergone dramatic changes. This contribution aims to analyze these relationships over time from the perspective of accountability and starts from the thesis that there has been a shift in who PSM are accountable to, in the way the institutions have been expected to render account and in what they are to be held accountable for.
