Almiron, Núria, 1967-Capurro, MaríaSantcovsky, Pablo2018-01-182018-01-182010Almiron N, Capurro M, Santcovsky P. The Regulation of public broadcasters' news coverage of political actors in ten European union countries. Communication & society. 2010;23(1):205-36.0214-0039http://hdl.handle.net/10230/33690This article presents the results of a comparative research study on the regulation of public broadcasters’ political news coverage in ten European countries. The aim of the study was to establish whether any regulation of political pluralism is applied to daily news programmes in both electoral and non-electoral periods. The results for each country and the comparative conclusions are given here. The data reveal that the politicisation of regulation varies according to the use of qualitative or quantitative criteria. The article also describes the political systems for the control of pluralism in each of the ten countries studied.Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación comparada realizada sobre la regulación de la cobertura de la información política en diez operadores públicos europeos. En concreto, el estudio investiga si existe regulación del pluralismo político, tanto para períodos electorales como ordinarios, aplicable a los informativos diarios. Aquí se proporcionan los resultados para cada país y las conclusiones comparadas. Los datos informan de diferentes grados de politizacion de la regulación, según el uso de criterios cualitativos o cuantitativos. La investigación también describe cuales són los sistemas de control del pluralismo político en los diez países estudiados.application/pdfeng© Almiron N, Capurro M, Santcovsky P. The Regulation of public broadcasters' news coverage of political actors in ten European union countries. Communication & society. 2010;23(1):205-36. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/articlePublic broadcastersRegulationPolitical newsPluralismEuropean UnionTelevisiones públicasRegulaciónInformación políticainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess