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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.

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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 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-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 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 Finnish Experience; Epp Lauk and Heikki Kuutti Conclusion: Towards Media Freedom and Independence; Evangelia Psychogiopoulou

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