What can be done? Digital media policy options for strengthening European democracy

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Abstract:: In this report, we identify some policy options available for the European Commission and for European Union member states should they wish to create a more enabling environment for independent professional journalism going forward. We argue that, to thrive, independent, professional journalism needs freedom, funding, and a future.
To enable this, media policy needs (a) to protect journalists and media from threats to their independence and to freedom of expression, (b) to provide a level playing field and support for a sustainable business of news, and (c) to be oriented towards the digital, mobile, and platform-dominated future that people are demonstrably embracing – not towards defending the broadcast and print-dominated past. Many of these options, we believe, would be relevant far beyond Europe and demonstrate what democratic digital media policies could look like.
Together, these policies would represent the outline of a more holistic approach to creating an environment where independent professional journalism can succeed.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: media policy

free expression

digital media

European Union

journalism

platforms
Pubs id:: 2062216
Local pid:: pubs:2062216
Deposit date:: 2024-11-13

Copyright holder:: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Rights statement:: This report is published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and has been produced in partnership with Madeleine de Cock Buning from the European University Institute and Utrecht University. This report can be reproduced under the Creative Commons licence CC BY.

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