Media Policies Revisited

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

      Pages 1-6

3. The Emerging Governance Pattern in Media and Communications

   1. The Emerging Governance Pattern in Media and Communications

      • Petros Iosifidis

      Pages 7-21

4. Media Freedom and Independence in Contemporary Democratic Societies

   1. Media Freedom and Independence in Contemporary Democratic Societies

      • Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

      Pages 22-38

5. Media Policy Processes and Regulatory Patterns

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Media Policy and New Regulatory Systems in Denmark

      • Henrik Søndergaard, Rasmus Helles

      Pages 41-54

   3. Multi-level and Interrelated Media Policy Processes in Germany: An Enabling or Constraining Factor for Free and Independent Media?

      • Sebastian Müller, Christoph Gusy

      Pages 55-68

   4. The ‘Piranha’ Model: Power Plays and Dynamics of Policy-making Addressing Free and Independent Media in Romania

      • Ioana Avadani, Cristian Ghinea

      Pages 69-82

   5. The National versus the European: The Croatian Roadmap to Media Freedom and Independence

      • Nada Švob-Ðokić, Paško Bilić

      Pages 83-97

6. Courts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. The Role of Courts in Protecting the Freedom of Expression in Italy

      • Federica Casarosa, Elda Brogi

      Pages 101-114

   3. The Freedom of Expression in the Media and the Slovak Judiciary

      • Andrej Školkay

      Pages 115-128

   4. Protecting the Public Interest in a Free Press: The Role of Courts and Regulators in the United Kingdom

      • Yolande Stolte, Rachael Craufurd Smith

      Pages 129-144

7. Media Finance and Business Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Changing Conditions of Competition for Public Service and Commercial Media in Belgium: Implications for Media Independence

      • Pierre-François Docquir, Bart Van Besien

      Pages 147-159

   3. New Business Models for the Media: The Spanish Case

      • Juan Luis Manfredi, Juan Pablo Artero

      Pages 160-174

   4. The Media in Bulgaria: Business Enterprises or PR Divisions of Business Groups?

      • Ruzha Smilova

      Pages 175-187

8. The Journalistic Profession

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. The State of the Journalistic Profession in Turkey

      • Ceren Sözeri, Dilek Kurban

      Pages 191-205

   3. The Role of Professional Journalism in the ‘Small’ Estonian Democracy

      • Halliki Harro-Loit, Urmas Loit

      Pages 206-219

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.

• democracy
• Europe
• governance
• Institution
• journalism
• journalists
• media
• Online
• Policy
• PR

• Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece

  Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

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, United Kingdom 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

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