Media Pluralism in the Digital Era: Legal, Economic, Social, and Political Lessons Learnt from Europe

Bringing together scholars, journalists, and researchers from 27 European countries, this book provides a comparative and longitudinal analysis of the evolvement of conditions and standards relevant for sustainable, free, and plural media and journalism in Europe in the last 10 years.

Elda Brogi is part-time Professor at the European University Institute and Scientific Coordinator of the EUI’s Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF). She has worked at the CMPF since its establishment and initiated and developed the implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor. Her main interests span constitutional, European, media and internet law. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Law and Constitutional Law from the University La Sapienza, Rome. She teaches Communication Law at the University of Florence.

Iva Nenadic is Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Political Science and a Research Fellow at the European University Institute’s Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom. She has been a part of the central team for the Media Pluralism Monitor, overseeing methodological improvements and regular implementations since 2016. From 2016 to 2023, she led the implementation of the MPM in the area of Political Independence. She specialises in researching the intersection of technology and journalism, media policy and regulation, platform governance, as well as topics like computational propaganda and disinformation.

Pier Luigi Parcu, is part-time Professor at the European University Institute since 2010. He is the founder and the Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom whose flagship project is the Media Pluralism Monitor. He is also the Director of the Centre for a Digital Society. In the field of media, his research focuses on the democratic and economic challenges associated with digital platforms, as part of his broader interest in innovation dynamics in the digital economy and in emerging technologies.