Journalists’ Self-regulation in Greece

Abstract

The evolution of the Greek media policy has been characterised for years by an essentially government-centred model of policy-making that has been profoundly influenced by particularistic business interests and the willingness of successive governments to retain control over the media sector (Psychogiopoulou, Kandyla and Anagnostou, 2012). State intervention into the realm of the media has been strong, and the media have been widely used as a means to political or other ends. This explains why Greece was considered to fall within the Mediterranean media system model identified by Hallin and Mancini (2004). Key features of this model are media instru- mentalisation, low journalistic professionalisation and robust state intervention in the development of the media and media regulation.