1st Edition

Journalism, Disinformation, and Europe’s Response Truth Under Siege

Edited By Jacopo Custodi, Martin Moland, Hans-Jörg Trenz Copyright 2027
176 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume examines the relationship between journalism, democracy, and disinformation in contemporary Europe. Drawing on original empirical research with journalists and media regulators, it provides a timely analysis of the European Union’s evolving regulatory response to disinformation and media pluralism, while foregrounding the perspectives of those directly involved in... Read more

Introduction: Journalism, disinformation, and Europe’s response

Jacopo Custodi, Martin Moland, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Tine Elisabeth Brøgger

1. The EU regulatory approach to media pluralism and disinformation in a global context: exceptional or trendsetting?

Hans-Jörg Trenz, Luis Bouza García, Alvaro Oleart and Elena García Guitián

2. The impact of EU regulation on media in Spain: Debates about fighting disinformation

Luis Bouza García, Rocío Sánchez del Vas and Elena García Guitián

3. Italian journalism amid declining standards and counter-disinformation efforts

Jacopo Custodi

4. The state of journalism in Norway and Iceland in a time of fake news and disinformation: Highly trusted yet still threatened

Martin Moland and Jón Gunnar Ólafsson

5. Journalism in Croatia in the era of post-truth

Hrvoje Butković and Sandro Knezović

6. Disinformation and the media in Poland: Between polarisation and European regulation

Joanna Orzechowska-Wacławska, Maciej Stępka, Mirela Marta Banach, Karolina Czerska-Shaw and Małgorzata Fijał

7. Bulgarian journalism amid fragile pluralism and declining professional standards

Hristo Panchugov and Dimitar Vatsov

Conclusion: Stakeholder perceptions, Europeanised norms and where we should go from here

Martin Moland, Jacopo Custodi, Hans-Jörg Trenz and Tine Elisabeth Brøgger

Biography

Jacopo Custodi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy.

Martin Moland is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hertie School, Germany, and an affiliate of the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.

Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy.