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Evangelia Psychogiopoulou brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to investigate the media's freedom and independence, and the media policy processes, institutional spaces, regulatory practices and instruments that can support the development of free and independent media in Europe.
List of contents
Introduction; Evangelia Psychogiopoulou 1. The Emerging Governance Pattern in Media and Communications; Petros Iosifidis 2. Media Freedom and Independence in Contemporary Democratic Societies; Evangelia Psychogiopoulou PART I: MEDIA POLICY PROCESSES AND REGULATORY PATTERNS 3. Media Policy and New Regulatory Systems in Denmark; Henrik Søndergaard and Rasmus Helles 4. Multi-Level and Interrelated Media Policy Processes in Germany: An Enabling or Constraining Factor for Free and Independent Media?; Sebastian Müller and Christoph Gusy 5. The 'Piranha' Model: Power Plays and Dynamics of Policy-Making Addressing Free and Independent Media in Romania; Ioana Avadani and Cristian Ghinea 6. The National versus the European: The Croatian Roadmap to Media Freedom and Independence; Nada Svob-?oki? and Pasko Bili? PART II: COURTS 7. The Role of Courts in Protecting the Freedom of Expression in Italy; Federica Casarosa and Elda Brogi 8. The Freedom of Expression in the Media and the Slovak Judiciary; Andrej Skolkay 9. Protecting the Public Interest in a Free Press: The Role of Courts and Regulators in the United Kingdom; Yolande Stolte and Rachael Craufurd Smith PART III: MEDIA FINANCE AND BUSINESS MODELS 10. Changing Conditions of Competition for Public Service and Commercial Media in Belgium: Implications for Media Independence; Pierre-François Docquir and Bart Van Besien 11. New Business Models for the Media: The Spanish Case ; Juan Luis Manfredi and Juan Pablo Artero 12. The Media in Bulgaria: Business Enterprises or PR Divisions of Business Groups?; Ruzha Smilova PART IV: THE JOURNALISTIC PROFESSION 13. The State of the Journalistic Profession in Turkey; Ceren Sözeri and Dilek Kurban 14. The Role of Professional Journalism in the 'Small' Estonian Democracy; Halliki Harro-Loit and Urmas Loit 15. Journalists' Self-Regulation in Greece; Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Anna Kandyla and Dia Anagnostou 16. Ethical Demands and Responsibilities in Online Publishing: The FinnishExperience; Epp Lauk and Heikki Kuutti Conclusion: Towards Media Freedom and Independence; Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
About the author
Dia Anagnostou, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece
Juan Pablo Artero, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Ioana Avadani, Center for Independent Journalism, Romania
Pa ko Bili?, Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia
Elda Brogi, Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, Italy
Federica Casarosa, European University Institute, Italy
Rachael Craufurd Smith, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Pierre-François Docquir, Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, Belgium
Cristian Ghinea, Romanian Center for European Policies, Romania
Christoph Gusy, Bielefeld University, Germany
Halliki Harro-Loit, University of Tartu, Estonia
Rasmus Helles, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Petros Iosifidis, City University London, United Kingdom
Anna Kandyla, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece
Dilek Kurban (JD), Research fellow, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, Turkey
Heikki Kuutti, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Epp Lauk, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Urmas Loit, University of Tartu, Estonia
Juan Luis Manfredi, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Sebastian Müller, Bielefeld University, Germany
Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece
Ruzha Smilova, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Henrik Søndergaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ceren Sözeri, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Yolande Stolte, University of Edinburgh, UnitedKingdom
Andrej kolkay, School of Communication and Media, Slovakia
Nada vob-?oki?, Institute for Development and International Relations, Croatia
Bart Van Besien, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
