Journalism, Disinformation, and Europe’s Response

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.

• Introduction: Journalism, disinformation, and Europe’s response 1. The EU regulatory approach to media pluralism and disinformation in a global context: exceptional or trendsetting? 2. The impact of EU regulation on media in Spain: Debates about fighting disinformation 3. Italian journalism amid declining standards and counter-disinformation efforts 4. The state of journalism in Norway and Iceland in a time of fake news and disinformation: Highly trusted yet still threatened 5. Journalism in Croatia in the era of post-truth 6. Disinformation and the media in Poland: Between polarisation and European regulation 7. Bulgarian journalism amid fragile pluralism and declining professional standards Conclusion: Stakeholder perceptions, Europeanised norms and where we should go from here