The Media and Society Foundation
An international initiative of media professionals : universal media quality management standards.
Media is facing new significant challenges. Commercial and political pressures are threatening its credibility and weakening its influence on the society. Media transparency and accountability are needed to establish a trusting relationship between the media and its readers, listeners or viewers, but also its numerous other stakeholders, i.e. its own staff, the advertisers, the public at large, the civil society, public authorities, etc.
The time has come for the media to claim its commitment to its own professional and ethical standards and demonstrate that it is enforcing the values it is upholding.
The Media and Society Foundation – a Swiss-based initiative of prominent international media professionals – has gathered together the main principles that are universally shared by media organizations. It has developed from them two ISO 9000 media-specific quality management standards, ISAS BC 9001 for broadcasters and ISAS P 9001 for the press and Internet content producers. These standards are available to any all media organizations interested in quality policy, training and certification by independent, non-governmental auditors.
Conditions to use the ISAS BC and P 9001 standards
ISAS BC and P 9001 standards are public and can be freely used by any media organization.
Consulting firms using them must be accredited by the Media and Society Foundation.
Individual consultants and auditors evaluating media organizations
according to the ISAS BC/P 9001 universal standards must be duly
trained in compliance with ISO 19011 requirements.
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The Media and Society Foundation is supported by the DDC (Swiss department for Development and Cooperation), the Loterie Romande and the City of Geneva.
- To ensure the Sustainability of Media Development Programmes
- Certified media organizations :
- Trans TV, Djakarta (Indonesia)
- Canal 11, Mexico (Mexico)
- Latvijas Radio, Riga (Latvia)
- Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
- BNJ FM SA, Delémont (Switzerland)
The MEDIA & SOCIETY FOUNDATION
PO Box 28
CH - 1232 Confignon/Geneva
Switzerland
Tel./Fax: +41 (0) 22 757 15 34
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