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The Cambridge Handbook of Media Law and Policy in Europe

Author: Martin Senftleben; Kristina Irion; Tarlach McGonagle; Joost Poort
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009568166
Published In: July 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This Handbook analyses pressing legal and policy issues that have arisen in the rapidly changing media ecosystem: from threats to media freedom and pluralism and the safety of journalists to challenges arising from the shift to platform-based communication, the spread of disinformation and the impact of AI on media and news production. Seeking to pave the way for new, integrated regulatory responses, the individual chapters address legal and policy developments from an overarching perspective that includes insights from human rights law, media law and copyright law.

Following this holistic approach, the Handbook identifies common principles for a coherent regulatory framework for news and media in Europe. It evaluates existing laws and media governance institutions in light of the economic, technological and political challenges posed to the media sector. The individual contributions present new directions for an integrated approach to European media law and policy.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Preface

Martin Senftleben, Kristina Irion, Tarlach McGonagle and Joost Poort

Rethinking European Media Law and Policy

Melinda Rucz, Kristina Irion and Martin Senftleben

Part I. Fundamental Rights Foundations of European Media Law and Policy:

1. Fundamental rights aspects of EU media regulation

Tarlach McGonagle

2. European media policy grounded in fundamental rights: linking the council of Europe and European Union

Urška Umek and Max van Drunen

3. Designing digital constitutionalism: copyright exceptions and limitations as a regulatory framework for media freedom and the right to information online

Christophe Geiger and Bernd Justin Jütte

4. Legitimacy of sanctions against media as a counteraction to Alien propaganda

Andrei Richter and Anna Smulders

Part II. Rethinking European Media Governance:

5. Big promises, small deeds: the bumpy ride from media ownership transparency to ownership restrictions

Josef Trappel

6. Influencers challenging the AVMSD's scope: in need for patching up or fundamental rethinking?

Nadia Feci and Peggy Valcke

7. New European media law: enforcement, compliance and democratic legitimacy

Tanja Kerševan

8. Lost in capture: how and why the EU Lost the battle for media freedom in Europe

Marius Dragomir and Zsuzsa Detrekői

9. Media policy transfer in Europe: Mission failing

Krisztina Rozgonyi

Part III. Countering the Information Disorder:

10. Evolution of the understanding of harm and its revention in EU media Law

Sally Broughton Micova

11. The EU's fight against online disinformation: can safeguarding fundamental rights arm fundamental rights?

Elda Brogi and Iva Nenadić

12. A missed opportunity? Information resilience and public service media policy in EU

Minna Aslama Horowitz and Marius Dragomir

13. Regulating the extreme public Sphere

Eugenia Siapera

14. Governance of information disorders 2.0: advancing co-regulatory frameworks

Stephan Dreyer

Part IV. Coping with Digital Transformations:

15. Big tech's differentiated lobbying: analysing the political activity of alphabet, meta and Microsoft in EU media policy

Melinda Rucz and Kristina Irion

16. Bargaining in the shadow of the press publishers' right

Ula Furgał and Martin Kretschmer

17. Is harmonization good if the end result is even more fragmentation? The case of Article 15 CDSM directive and the exclusion of 'very short extracts'

Eleonora Rosati

Part V. New Directions for Preserving Journalism:

18. No news is bad news: the role of government in news markets in the age of aggregators and AI

Joost Poort

19. Regulating opinion power: journalism, platforms and public speech

Andrew T. Kenyon

20. Can (IP) aw help preserve quality journalism?

Daniel Gervais

21. Remuneration for AI training – A new source of income for journalists?

Martin Senftleben