Biography

Roberta Carlini is Assistant Part-time Professor at the EUI. Roberta joined the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), based at the Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, after a career as journalist, specialized in economic and social issues.

Her research in media studies focuses on the economic dimension of media pluralism and media freedom.  At CMPF Roberta contributes to the project “Monitoring media pluralism in the digital era” (Media Pluralism Monitor), where she is in charge of the Market Plurality area, focusing on media ownership concentration, media sustainability, digital markets, working conditions of journalists, public support to the media sector. She co-authors the national report of MPM for Italy. In 2022 she contributed to a study on Media plurality and diversity online, co-authoring the chapter on the online advertising market. She is a member of the Centre for a Digital Society, based at the Robert Schuman Centre.

Roberta holds a degree in Law (University of Rome La Sapienza) and a Master’s degree in Public Finance at CNR (Centro Nazionale Ricerche). As a journalist, she covered economy and public finance, job market, media, education, social and gender issues for several Italian media; she has been deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper il manifesto, and of the weekly magazine Pagina 99. She makes regular contributions for the magazine Internazionale and for Rai Radio Tre. She co-founded inGenere.it (a web-magazine disseminating knowledge and expertise on Gender and Economics) and is a consultant for Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini.  As an essayist, she has written several books, most recently “Come siamo cambiati. Gli italiani e la crisi” (Laterza, 2015).

Recent research output

• Authors: CARLINI, Roberta
  Market power and opinion power : assessing the risks for media pluralism and editorial independence deriving from ownership's concentration - Article

• Authors: BLAGOJEV, Tijana;BLEYER-SIMON, Konrad;BROGI, Elda;CARLINI, Roberta;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;KERMER, Jan Erik;NENADIC, Iva;PALMER, Marie;PARCU, Pier Luigi;REVIGLIO, Urbano;TREVISAN, Matteo;VERZA, Sofia
  Monitoring media pluralism in the European Union : results of the MPM2025 - Technical Report

• Authors: BLEYER-SIMON, Konrad;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;BROGI, Elda;CARLINI, Roberta;KERMER, Jan Erik
  A European news streaming platform : study on European added value and governance - Technical Report

• Authors: MAZZONI, Leonardo;BOTTA, Marco;CARLINI, Roberta;FILISTRUCCHI, Lapo;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;PARCU, Pier Luigi
  Implications of the digital transformation on different social groups - Technical Report

• Authors: FRIEDLAENDER, Daniel;MARCUS, J. Scott;TALEB, Amal;VERHOEVEN, Amaryllis
  Editors: PARCU, Pier Luigi;CARLINI, Roberta
  Strengthening EU digital competitiveness : stoking the engine - Video

• Authors: CARLINI, Roberta;CÁDIMA, Francisco Rui;FLYNN, Roderick;KALBHENN, Jan Christopher
  Media viability vs market plurality : a comparative perspective : the growing tendency towards media ownership concentration in the digital ecosystem - Contribution to book

• Editors: MAJCHER, Klaudia
  Charting the digital and technological future of Europe : what priorities for the European Commission in 2024-2029? - Technical Report

• Authors: BLEYER-SIMON, Konrad;BROGI, Elda;CARLINI, Roberta;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;KERMER, Jan Erik;NENADIC, Iva;PALMER, Marie;PARCU, Pier Luigi;REVIGLIO, Urbano;TREVISAN, Matteo;VERZA, Sofia;ŽUFFOVÁ, Mária
  Monitoring media pluralism in the digital era : application of the media pluralism monitor in the European member states and in candidate countries in 2023 - Technical Report

• Authors: NENADIC, Iva;CARLINI, Roberta;SPASSOV, Orlin
  A decade of digital transformation : pluralism between the media and digital platforms - Contribution to book

• Authors: GALLI, Niccolò;BOTTA, Marco;CARLINI, Roberta;DA COSTA LEITE BORGES, Danielle;FILISTRUCCHI, Lapo;MAZZONI, Leonardo;MENÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Natalia;PARCU, Pier Luigi;PISARKIEWICZ, Anna Renata;ROSSI, Maria Alessandra
  Position statement on the Joint ITA–NIST–USPTO collaboration initiative regarding standards : notice of public listening and request for comments - Working Paper