Dr. Stylianos Papathanassopoulos is Professor in Media Organisation and Policy at the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has written extensively on media developments in Europe and Greece and especially on television issues. His research interests are on European communications and new media policies as well as media effects. His publications can be found in journals as the European Journal of Communication, Media Culture and Society, Media International Australia, The International Journal of Harvard in Press and Politics, Intermedia, Political Communication, The Communication Review, Journalism Studies. He has also written for the trade press (Broadcast, Television Business International, European Television Analyst, Cable and Satellite Europe), and is the editor of the first and only communication journal in Greece Zitimata Epikoinonias (Communication Issues).