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"In this chapter the particularities of information organisation and news management in Brussels are covered. It shows that, on the one hand, communication in Brussels is very much 'institution-centred' in terms of media interests and 'institution-driven' in terms of the agenda offered to journalists. On the other hand, although covering similar issues and reporting on the same institutions, journalists remain nationalmedia bound. As argued throughout the chapter, it is impossible to understand EU communication without familiarising oneself with particularities of the Brussels news site and of EU news production logic. Thus, the chapter examines these particularities by assessing both the 'ease' and the 'complexity' of working in Brussels." (author's abstract)

Der Beitrag geht davon aus, dass die meisten Untersuchungen zum Thema einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit (EPS) in starkem Maße von einer Definition von Öffentlichkeit beeinflusst wurden, die historisch gesehen von den Institutionen der Europäischen Union selbst ausgegeben wurde. Kommunikation und später öffentliche Meinung wurden von den Pionieren der EU als Wege zur Überwindung der begrenzten Kompetenzen der europäischen Institutionen verstanden. Indem sie dies taten, übten sie später einen starken Einfluss auf die Theorien einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit aus und förderten einen Ansatz von Öffentlichkeit, der in der Hauptsache auf zwei Annahmen beruhte: EPS ist auf die Verfügbarkeit von Informationen über die EU in den nationalen Medien angewiesen und alle EU-Bürger sind Teil der EPS. Der Beitrag entwickelt Vorschläge für alternative Forschungsansätze zum EPS. Die Vorstellung einer EPS sollte sich weder an den nationalen Medien der Mitgliedstaaten orientieren noch davon ausgehen, dass sie alle EU-Bürger zu umfassen hätte. Vielmehr tritt die EPS als sektoral, in höchstem Maße selektiv in Erscheinung und umfasst Akteure unterschiedlichster beruflicher und politischer Bereiche mit einem gemeinsamen starken Interesse an den Angelegenheiten der EU. (UNübers.)

On 16 Mar 1999, the College of Commissioners, presided over by Jacques Santer, announced its collective resignation after more than six months wherein the European press had made public a number of cases of fraud & management errors within the Commission as a whole. These highly mediatized criticisms led the new Commission to reflect upon its relationship with the accredited press in Brussels & led to a reform of the communicational practices of the European executive. Having first characterized the milieu of community-level sources & the traditional dominance of the Commission as a source of information, this article analyzes this attempt at reform & its failure as a means of analyzing an institution which, whilst seeking to highlight its role as a political actor by officializing its relationship with the press, has had great difficulty in being recognized as such by the journalists involved who are above all after more technical information. This subject matter is thus a means of observing the fundamental ambiguity of an institution where the technical & the political are inseparable & where problems of legitimacy are crucial causes of this relationship. 23 References. Adapted from the source document.

"This Chapter concentrates on the key factors determining professional practices of media reporting on European matters, namely, it identifies internal organisationalspecifics of the Brussels news site and shows the challenges that journalists face in the process of becoming familiar with this news environment; it discusses the priorities according to which news are selected when reporting an European matters and assesses the press-politics relationship from the perspective of journalists' communication with political sources. Chapter 4 also explores the contradiction between globalism and localism, emerging in connection with the hierarchies of news values and newsworthiness criteria guiding professional practices." (author's abstract)