Euro Crisis in the Media

Robert G. Picard is Director of Research at the Reuters Institute in the Department of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford, a research fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a specialist in media economics and policy, author and editor of 28 books, and has consulted for numerous governments and international organisations including the European Commission, UNESCO and the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

• Preface1. Understanding the Crisis, Robert G. Picard2. Why study Portrayals of the Crisis, Robert G. Picard 3. How did we get here? What Now? Roots, responsibilities and solutions of the Crisis, Heinz-Werner Nienstedt, Hans Mathias Kepplinger, Oliver Quiring4. Do political events change national stereotypes? Hans Mathias Kepplinger, Christina Köhler, Senja Post5. Who will fix the economy? Expectations and trust in the European Institutions, Donatella Campus and Giovanni Barbieri 6. The Actors of the Crisis: Between Personalisation and Europeanization, Nicolas Hubé, Susana Salgado and Liina Puustinen7. A multitude of voices? Pluralism and Consonance in Coverage, Susana Salgado and Robert G. Picard8. Europe’s Perfect Storm: Uses of Metaphors and Frames in the Coverage, Willem Joris, Liina Puustinen, Katarzyna Sobieraj & Leen d’Haenens9. Two Divergent Perspectives? Financial Newspapers and the General Interest Press, Ángel Arrese and Alfonso Vara10. When the newspaper matters: Types of Papers and Political Orientation, Paolo Mancini and Marco Mazzoni11. European Journalism or Many Journalisms? Influences of media systems and journalistic cultures, Robert G. Picard and Susana Salgado12. Unity or Heterogeneity: The Promise of European Public Sphere?, Juha Herkman and Timo Harjuniemi13. Conclusion