Media Capture in the Post-Truth Era: media freedom is a function of the quality of democracy

Bissera Zankova is the President of the Sofia-based “Media 21” Foundation, an independent media researcher and consultant. Her research interests are human rights, media regulation policy and new media. In the past, she served at the Council of Europe on policy documentation on new notions of media and public service media governance. Her latest international research projects include studies on applied social media and convergence alongside media systems in Central and Southeast Europe, with the specifics of the Bulgarian media law culture. E-mail: bzankova@gmail.com

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi holds the professorship of Comparative Public Policy at the Department of Political Science at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome; she is also the Director of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS).