Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "EUobserver" in English language version.
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EUobserver provides an extremely useful report on daily issues concerning the EU.
Every newspaper stand in Europe provides English-language newspapers and magazines, yet none of them are produced on the European Continent expressly with the intention of reaching a Continental European audience. Rather, newspapers such as the International Tribute or magazines such as Time or Newsweek are intended for a readership of English native speakers abroad and an international elite of non-native speakers. Thus, we cannot really group these under the heading of 'English in European media'. The only first development in this direction is, to the author's knowledge, the online news magazine EU Observer, which presents EU-related news to a European audience in English.
One of the factors that restrict advocacy think tanks in the EU from emerging is the lack of widely read European media, not disregarding Politico.eu, EUobserver, and EurActiv.
A European public sphere can be imagined in two ways. The first is a pan-European public sphere, carried by pan European media, available across the entire EU territory. Some of these exist today (Arte, Euronews, European Voice, EUobserver, ...), but reach a very limited audience [...] A problem for the rise of such European media is obviously the absence of a common language in the EU as English cannot (yet) be considered the lingua franca of all its social classes and geographical areas.
Of these media the Financial Times has a stable position as the leading news source [...] The second most influential media among journalists is EUobserver, a Brussels-based online news source. A third of correspondents said they got their EU news from the EUobserver in the APCO poll, while 53 per cent said they read news on the site at least once a week, according to the ComRes ZN survey.
