Setting out to write a chapter about crime and media in Europe is a daunting and possibly
foolhardy mission. If we take the medium of greatest penetration alone, there are an …

It is only in the last few years that multichannel television has really made inroads in Italy.
This article assesses the nature and extent of change that has taken place in Italian …

The topics of 'punishment'and 'prisons' have filled libraries for years. An overview of
European research on these issues would require at least two books (see eg Daems et al …

The ideological tenets of the journalistic professions, historically grounded in the
development of modern Western democracies, are increasingly shaken by the changes …

This article presents a comparative analysis of News Corporation's entry strategy and rise to
dominance in the British and Italian television markets through its satellite pay-TV …

Las corporaciones televisivas tradicionales han encontrado la forma de dar el primer paso
hacia la cross-medialidad, instituyendo departamentos específicos para la producción …

This article examines how Italian commercial broadcast news on Mediaset's three terrestrial
channels has covered the transition to digital terrestrial television. Mediaset is the largest …

Using the case of the Rome-based media group ZaLab, this article examines the
articulations that shape and define the multiple dynamics of connected activism in …

There has been a clear link between media organisation and regulation and the Italian
political system since the Fascist period when, for the first time, the importance of media as a …

Executive summary Italian media policy has a long history of inter-relations between politics
and private interests: from the parallelism between the party system and the allocation of …