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Abstract: This review examines Irini Katsirea's Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study (Oxford University Press, 2024), a comparative analysis of press regulation across international, supranational, and domestic legal frameworks in six countries and the European Union. The review situates the work within a media landscape transformed by social media, misinformation, and generative AI, and commends Katsirea's broad conception of the press and rigorous thematic methodology. It also identifies limitations, including uneven treatment across jurisdictions, a Western-centric scope that excludes non-democratic press freedom contexts, an implicit assumption of historical journalistic neutrality, and the challenge of keeping pace with rapidly evolving technology and policy. Despite these limitations, Katsirea's work offers an essential framework for understanding how democratic societies can preserve free press functions in the digital age.
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