EURACTIV has launched its new ‘Digital & Media hub’ this week to better report on all key developments, positive and negative, in the field of media, a sector that often does not receive quite the attention it deserves. 

“There are two main changes taking place in the media landscape: increasing challenges to democracy and rule of law, but also increased opportunity as media become predominantly digital. Our new Digital & Media hub enables us to invest in more reporting and analysis of these two macro-trends which are already transforming the European public sphere,” says Zoran Radosavljevic, EURACTIV’S Editor-in-Chief.

Earlier this week, Vice President of the European Commission for Values & Transparency Věra Jourová spoke with Samuel Stolton, Editor of EURACTIV’s Digital Hub [1], about the new Digital & Media hub and about the state of play of media freedom in Europe more generally, noting that this new focus in EURACTIV is timely and could play a constructive role in strengthening Europe’s democracy, which largely relies on strong, independent media.

EU policy around digital and media innovation are closely related, as explained in this Op-Ed on leadership [6], published on EURACTIV.