Commissioning editors in public television – what they were, what they are and what they could be in the future

Media policy evening – Zoom event

“Commissioning editors in public television – what they were, what they are and what they could be in the future”

a discussion with Prof. Dr. Sabine Rollberg, moderated by Robert Krieg

April 22, 2024
19:30

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For years, two processes can be observed in the public service media: the hierarchization of programming responsibility and the formatting of the program. We will talk with Sabine Rollberg about how to bypass these processes and how to come into contact with commissioning editors. Competence shifts and hierarchies have reached an unprecedented level in editorial offices.
The formatting of documentary film is flattening and devaluing the program as a whole. The many commissioning editors who take the mission of public TV seriously cannot be indifferent to this.

Sabine Rollberg’s text on this can be found in the anthology of the German Academy for Television (DAFF) on the topic of
The future of media (eds. Thorolf Lipp, Dieter Wiedemann).
The complete book is available for purchase, but is also available as an Open Access download. here

Prof. Dr. Sabine Rollberg worked in public broadcasters for over 40 years. As ARTE representative of the WDR, she supervised documentaries that won numerous international awards. She taught for 10 years at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne for 10 years and at the University of Freiburg.