European Media in Crisis Values, Risks and Policies [Hardcover]

When the financial markets collapsed in 2008, the media industry was affected by a major slump in advertising revenues, and a formerly highly successful business model fell into a state of decay. This economic crisis has threatened core social values of contemporary democracies, such as freedom, diversity and equality. Taking a normative and policy perspective, this book discusses threats and opportunities for the media industry in Europe: What are the implications of the crisis for professional journalism, the media industry, and the process of political communication? Can non- state and non-market actors profit from the crisis? And what are media policy answers at the national and European level?

ForewordDenis McQuailIntroduction Josef Trappel, Jeanette Steemers and Barbara Thomass  Part 1: European Media in Crisis: Problems, Perspectives and Definitions  1. What Media Crisis? Normative Starting Points Barbara Thomass, Hannu Nieminen, Josef Trappel and Werner A. Meier  2. Systemic Media Changes and Social and Political Polarization in Europe Auks Bal1ytien and Kristina Jurait  Part 2: Media Industry Crises and Transformations  3. European Communication and Information Industries in Times of Crisis: Continuities and Transformations Laura Berg?s and Stelios Papathanassopoulos  4. Broadcasting is Dead. Long Live Television: Perspectives from Europe Jeanette Steemers  5. Crisis of the Commercial Media  Josef Trappel, Laura Berg?s and Elena Vartanova  Part 3: Crisis in Journalism Values, Public Communication and Representation  6. Safeguarding Newsroom Autonomy: Tensions Between the Ideal and the Actual Karin Raeymaeckers, Elena Vartanova and Auks Bal1ytien  7. Crisis of the News: The Framing of lc(