(Read or download the yearbook here)
The Basque Media Observatory publishes this book annually, which is a collection of works, projects and incidences that stand out. Among these 14 articles, there are some of the main issues that will be on the table the year we have just begun.
To begin with, and to contextualize the time in which we live, we have two chronicles that review the media sector both internationally and at the level of the Basque Country, in two articles written from the Observatory and the Hekimen Association. The challenges of digitisation, in an increasingly rapidly changing global environment, are playing an important role in the planning of the Basque media and are working hard to adapt to new needs.
In the Open Signature section of the essay, we will find the opinion article by Lander Arretxea. It looks at this environment of great changes and speeds, with a constructive and positive vision, with optimism about a possible situation of dystopia, in a text that has ludically called self-help as an exercise.
The section of the media sector opens with an article that makes a historical review of the radio Euskalerria irratia. On the occasion of its 35th birthday, the Yearbook offers you a special place, not only on its pages, but also on the presentation of its publication, which has been presented on radio waves and streaming, live, the publication Urtekaria 2023-2024.
In the sectorial section we will also find articles on the transformation process of Berria, the digitalization strategy of EITB and the university diploma of journalism in Basque Country of Iparralde.
In the section of larger studies and research, we will find an article on the concept of social value of the Basque media, based on the cases of Argia and Alea, elaborated by Eneko Bidegain and colleagues from Mondragon Unibertsitatea. Garazi Sánchez from the UPV/EHU and his colleagues from the research group NOR have analyzed the consumption habits of youth information in the article Youth and Information, based on the Ikusiker panel. Ainara Larrondo and his colleagues from the Gureiker group of the same university have measured the presence of the mention of AI in the digital interview of the Basque networks. The following article describes in depth the Structural Adequacy Index for the Development of the Hearing created by the HEKA group of the UPV/EHU, led by Iñaki Zabaleta. Then, Ane Martinez, from the NOR group, analyzes in his study the consumption of contents in Basque and the sociolinguistic areas. Arantza Gutiérrez, from the research group Women’s Visibility in the media, has focused on the Sustraia program of ETB to analyze the visibility of women farmers. And finally, Libe Mimenza and her colleagues have worked on Hekimen’s media web traffic in 2023, in an article that reviews their annual evolutions.
