Dr Irini Katsirea

LLM (Leicester); PhD (Cambridge)

Department of Journalism Studies

Reader in International Media Law

i.katsirea@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2540

236a, 9 Mappin Street

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Dr Irini Katsirea
Department of Journalism Studies
236a
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT

Profile: Dr Irini Katsirea is Reader in International Media Law at the University of Sheffield. She joined the Department of Journalism Studies in September 2015. Before her appointment at the University of Sheffield, Irini was Senior Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University, London. She has served as Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and is a member of the Athens Bar. She holds a First Examination in Law from the Free University of Berlin, an LLM in European and International Trade Law from the University of Leicester and a PhD from Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Research interests

Irini's research interests are in the areas of international, European and comparative media law as well as EU law. She has published extensively in these areas. Her recent research projects include 'Press Regulation in an Era of Convergence', funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, and 'A comparison of editorial standards and complaints handling before and after IPSO', funded by IPSO.

Irini welcomes PhD applications in her areas of research.

Publications

Journal articles

Dagoula C, Katsirea I & Harrison J (2023) The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies.
Katsirea I (2019) ‘“Fake news”: Reconsidering the value of untruthful expression in the face of regulatory uncertainty’. The Journal of Media Law, 10(2), 159-188. View this article in WRRO
Katsirea I (2018) Search Engines and Press Archives Between Memory and Oblivion. European Public Law, 24(1), 125-146. View this article in WRRO
Katsirea I (2017) Digital terrestrial television licensing in Greece: Curiouser and curiouser. International Journal of Digital Television, 8(2), 201-219. View this article in WRRO
Katsirea I (2017) Newspaper Websites as Audiovisual Media Services: The New Media Online GmbH Preliminary Ruling. European Law Review, 42(1), 92-100. View this article in WRRO
Katsirea I (2016) Press regulation in an era of convergence: An introduction. Convergence. View this article in WRRO
Katsirea I (2015) Electronic press: 'Press-like' or 'television-like'?. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 23(2), 134-156. View this article in WRRO
Iosifidis P & Katsirea I (2015) Public Service Broadcasting in Greece: Back to the Future or Point of No Return?. Global Media Journal : Mediterranean Edition, 10(Spring 2015 (01)), 1-12. View this article in WRRO
Iosifidis P & Katsirea I (2014) Public Service Broadcasting in Greece in the Era of Austerity.
Iosifidis P & Katsirea I (2014) ‘Public Service Broadcasting in the Era of Austerity’, London, 11 July 2013. International Journal of Digital Television, 5(1), 103-106.
Katsirea I (2012) Broadcasting in an Age of Commercialism. Journal of Media Law, 4(2), 155-158.
Katsirea I (2012) Who is Afraid of Public Service Broadcasting? The Digital Future of an Age-Old Institution Under Threat. Yearbook of European Law, 31(1), 416-451.
Katsirea I (2010) Lilian Edwards and Charlotte Waelde (eds), Law and the Internet. Journal of Media Law, 2(1), 139-143.
Katsirea I (2009) Judicial Review of Party Broadcasts in Germany and the United Kingdom. Journal of Media Law, 1(2), 269-287.
Katsirea I (2007) Audiovisual media services without frontiers implementing the rules. COMMON MARKET LAW REVIEW, 44(6), 1837-1839.
Katsirea I (2006) Book Review: Culture: Cornerstone of the European Union Edifice?, Culture and European Union Law. Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 13(2), 239-258.
Katsirea I (2005) The circumvention principle: An effective defence of national broadcasting systems against abuse?. Communications Law, 10(4), 130-134.
Katsirea I & Ruff A (2005) Free movement of law students and lawyers in the EU: a comparison of English, German and Greek legislation. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 12(3), 367-406.
Katsirea I (2004) The Transmission State Principle: The End of the Broadcasting Sovereignty of the Member States?. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 6, 105-139.
Katsirea I (2004) The Transmission State Principle: The End of the Broadcasting Sovereignty of the Member States?. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 6, 105-139.
Katsirea I (2002) Broadcasting in the European Union. The role of public interest in competition analysis.. COMMON MARKET LAW REVIEW, 39(5), 1200-1202.
Dagoula C, Harrison J & Katsirea I () IPSO and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints handling procedures in four UK newspapers. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies.

Chapters

Katsirea I (2016) ELECTRONIC PRESS: TURNING A NEW LEAF FOR CONVERGENT MEDIA CONTENT REGULATION? In Simpson S, Puppis M & van den Bulck H (Ed.), European Media Policy for the 21st Century (pp. 45-77). London: Routledge.
(2014) The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy Palgrave Macmillan UK
Katsirea I (2014) The Television Without Frontiers Directive, The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy (pp. 297-311). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Gibbons T & Katsirea I (2012) Commercial Influences on Programme Content: The German and UK Approaches to Transposing EU Rules on Product Placement (pp. 159-188). Informa UK Limited
() European Media Policy for the Twenty-First Century Routledge
Katsirea I () The Television Without Frontiers Directive, The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy Palgrave Macmillan
Katsirea I () How Far are National Broadcasting Orders Converging as a Consequence of European Media Law and Policy? Edward Elgar Publishing

Teaching activities: Irini has taught a variety of subjects including intellectual property and media law, EU law and international commercial arbitration. She is currently module leader for JNL6075 Media Freedom: European, UK and US Perspectives and oversees dissertation work by students on MA Global Journalism (JNL6133) and MA International Public and Political Communication (JNL6600).

PhD supervision

Irini welcomes supervision enquiries for PhD study in her research areas of international, European and comparative media law, as well as EU law.

Current PhD students

Aiman Alsaeedi: The integration of user-generated contents and citizen journalism within professional journalistic frameworks at the Arab news channels