Media Policies Revisited: The Challenge for Media Freedom and Independence

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.

Table 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 Švob-?oki? and Paško 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 Školkay 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