Media Policies Revisited: The Challenge for Media Freedom and Independence [Paperback]

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.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 S?ndergaard and Rasmus Helles 4. Multi-Level and Interrelated Media Policy Processes in Germany: An Enabling or Constraining Factor for Free and Independent Media?; Sebastian M?ller 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 `vob-?oki? and Paako 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 `kolkay 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-Fran?ois 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 l*