EUobserver
 | |
| Type | Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | EUobserver.comASBL |
| Founder(s) | Lisbeth Kirk |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Website | euobserver |
EUobserveris a Europeanonline newspaper,launched in 2000 by theBrussels-based organisation EUobserver.comASBL.
The newspaper provides both daily reports and in-depth coverage on international affairs related to theEuropean Union(EU).[1]It is regarded as one of the first English language media outlets dedicated to the reporting of EU affairs,[2]since joined byThe Brussels Times,EURACTIVandPolitico Europe.[3]
Organisation
[edit]The website was first launched in 2000 byLisbeth Kirk,a Danish journalist.[citation needed]
There is much academic debate over whetherEUobserver,along with other similar publications, can be considered to be contributing to the creation of a pan-Europeanpublic sphere.[4][5]
Kirk served as both editor-in-chief and business chief of the paper until 2015,[6]after which she was replaced by Eric Maurice, who took over as editor-in-chief of the publication.[7]In 2019, Koert Debeuf was appointed as new editor-in-chief of EUobserver.[8]
Readership
[edit]The newspaper claims both financial independence fromEU institutionsand a daily circulation of 60,000.[9][10]
In a 2008 poll of 100 Brussels-basedjournalistsbyAPCO,one third claimed to use the publication as their source for EU news, making it, at the time, the "second most influential" media outlet reporting on EU affairs behind theFinancial Times.[11]Also, in a 2016 media survey, conducted byComResandBurson-Marstelleron 'What Influences the Influencers', it was found thatEUobservertended to be the preferred source of news for EU officials.[12]
SinceEUobserveris an online medium, with the exception of its quarterly magazine editions,[13]it relies on a growing social media following onTwitter,FacebookandLinkedIn,reaching 330,000 followers in 2019.[14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Nugent, Neill (2011). "Guide to Further Reading".The Government and Politics of the European Union.The European Union Series (7th ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. p. 464.ISBN9780230241183.OCLC745517862.
EUobserverprovides an extremely useful report on daily issues concerning the EU.
- ^Mollin, Sandra (2006).Euro-English: assessing variety status.Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. p. 56.ISBN9783823362500.OCLC804963256.
Every newspaper stand in Europe provides English-language newspapers and magazines, yet none of them are produced on the European Continent expressly with the intention of reaching a Continental European audience. Rather, newspapers such as theInternational Tributeor magazines such asTimeorNewsweekare intended for a readership of English native speakers abroad and an international elite of non-native speakers. Thus, we cannot really group these under the heading of 'English in European media'. The only first development in this direction is, to the author's knowledge, the online news magazineEU Observer,which presents EU-related news to a European audience in English.
- ^Kelstrup, Jesper Dahl (2016).The Politics of Think Tanks in Europe.Routledge. p. 124.ISBN9781138918320.OCLC935193101.
One of the factors that restrict advocacy think tanks in the EU from emerging is the lack of widely read European media, not disregarding Politico.eu, EUobserver, and EurActiv.
- ^Sinardet, Dave(2011). "Multilingual democracy and public sphere: what Belgium and the EU can learn from each other". In Gosseries, Axel; Vanderborght, Yannick (eds.).Arguing about justice: Essays for Philippe Van Parijs.Presses Universitaires de Louvain. p. 312.ISBN9782874632754.OCLC904310256.
A European public sphere can be imagined in two ways. The first is a pan-European public sphere, carried by pan European media, available across the entire EU territory. Some of these exist today (Arte, Euronews, European Voice,EUobserver,...), but reach a very limited audience [...] A problem for the rise of such European media is obviously the absence of a common language in the EU as English cannot (yet) be considered the lingua franca of all its social classes and geographical areas.
- ^"EU Observer Media Kit"(PDF).Silchester Marketing.
- ^Heath, Ryan (2016-10-07)."The Women Who Shape Brussels".Politico Europe.Retrieved2017-05-28.
- ^"EUobserver About Section".EUobserver.
- ^"Politico EU Influence".Politico.2019-06-21.Retrieved2019-10-01.
- ^"EUobserver.com".VoxEurop.eu.2017-01-18.Retrieved2017-05-28.
- ^"EU Observer Media Kit"(PDF).Silchester Marketing.
- ^Terzis, Georgios (2015).Mapping foreign correspondence in Europe.Routledge. p. 27.ISBN9780415719001.OCLC955586223.
Of these media theFinancial Timeshas a stable position as the leading news source [...] The second most influential media among journalists isEUobserver,a Brussels-based online news source. A third of correspondents said they got their EU news from theEUobserverin the APCO poll, while 53 per cent said they read news on the site at least once a week, according to the ComRes ZN survey.
- ^"What Influences the Influencers? 2016 EU Media Poll findings unveiled".Burson Marsteller EU.January 28, 2016.
- ^"The Color Club EUobserver Magazine Design".The Color Club.
- ^"EUobserver Media Kit 2019"(PDF).
