Euronews Reshuffles Comparison Management

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Dec 22, 2011 4:40 PM, By Philip Hunter

The shareholders of Euronews , the vessel European multilingual headlines channel, have allocated Paolo Garimberti as the new chairperson of the supervisory board, and Michael Peters as CEO. Garimberti succeeds Pier Luigi Malesani, whilst Peters has been promoted from handling executive of Euronews. Peters succeeds Philippe Cayla, who has been allocated chairperson of Euronews Development and a associate of the supervisory board. Also allocated to the supervisory house are Lucian Srb, executive of headlines and programs, Ccile Leveaux, technical director, and Olivier de Montchenu, sales executive and handling executive of Euronews Sales. Meanwhile Malesani, nonetheless no longer chairman, waste a full associate of the supervisory board.

European media observers will be meddlesome to see what effect these unconditional managerial changes will have on Euronews' voice and media independence, given the duct has been criticized for being a spokesman of the European Union (EU) in the past. This was mocking given that the EU, to one side the European Broadcast Union (EBU), has been propelling associate states to make sure their state broadcasters are giveaway of supervision interference over programming. Indeed, Euronews was set up by the EBU in 1992 at the time of the initial Gulf War, to give a European counterweight to CNN, that then dominated coverage of the conflict. Since then, however, the EU has increased its encouragement for Euronews, right away providing 25 percent of its 60 million budget, ample of the rest forthcoming from advertising.

During 2011, Euronews has attempted to answer the who charge it of never report headlines vicious of the EU by stepping up its on-site stating of violation events and inclusive more narration in its headlines bulletins rsther than than unclothed coverage of events. The new crew changes should take this further, mainly given Garimberti was boss of Italian state broadcaster RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana), where he resisted attempts by ex-Italian boss Silvio Berlusconi to control coverage. Garimberti might find the EU simpler to treat with.