Media in Europe Today

Josef Trappel is professor for media policy and media economics and head of the department of communication studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He is director of the Erasmus+ Master Programme Digital Communication Leadership, and convenor of the Euromedia Research Group. His research interests are European and national media and platform policy, media and democracy, as well as media innovation.

Contact: University of Salzburg, Rudolfskai 42, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.

Werner A. Meier (Ph.D. University of Zurich, Switzerland) is Professor Emeritus of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Zurich, where he taught and conducted research from 1977 until 2014. He is a critical observer of the media landscape in Switzerland. His main areas of interests are media structures, media policy and media sociology.

Leen dÆHaenens is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

Jeanette Steemers is professor in the School of Media, Arts, and Design at the University of Westminster, Harrow.

Barbara Thomass is professor in the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University.