Press and Democracy
Peter VandermeerschPress and Democracy explores the vital connection between a free press and a healthy democracy, offering insights, analysis, and commentary on media, politics, and the public sphere.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 50 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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I am admitting my mistake
Since October, I have been writing here about journalism. What threatens journalism? Why is good and transparent journalism so important for our society? How can journalistic organisations deal with mistakes? What is the value of journalism...
Don’t Let Them Steal
At the London Book Fair, held in recent days, a remarkable scene unfolded: thousands of copies of an almost “empty” book were distributed. The work, tellingly titled Don’t Steal This Book, contains nothing but a list of approximately 10,000...
Cartoonists under pressure
Nearly half of the roughly three hundred cartoonists surveyed worldwide have had at least one cartoon removed from a social media platform in recent years. This is one of the key findings of Under Pressure. Report on the Situation of Threat...
Who pays for journalism?
Listeners of The Daily, the highly popular New York Times podcast that also enjoys a large audience in Europe, heard a rather unusual message at the beginning of this week. Arthur Gregg (A.G.) Sulzberger, the publisher of the newspaper and...
A Plea for the Paper
I received a remarkable number of responses to my previous post here on Substack and Steady about the algorithm behind X/Twitter. In it, I discussed a study published in Nature showing that the X/Twitter algorithm favours conservative conte...
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First foreign correspondent in Paris and NY. Then editor of De Standaard (Brussels, 1999-2010) and NRC (Amsterdam, 2010-2019). From 2019-2025 publisher and CEO of Mediahuis Ireland (Dublin and Belfast). Now Mediahuis fellow 'Journalism and Society'.
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