ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the media performance and the European governance, by examining how newspaper journalist's view different aspects of their practices and roles in this process. Journalists are defined as those who take decisions directly affecting news contents. Media performance is often criticised for contributing to the European Union's perceived democratic deficit, its lack of visibility, resonance and legitimacy in the hearts and mind's of citizens. It aims to provide a broad general overview of journalist's responses to the emergence of European governance by a systematic study of their evaluations and experiences of factors which shape the coverage of European affairs. Journalists writing for general audiences felt that their readerships lag behind in their understanding of the importance of European politics. The media system depends on inputs of information from the political system. This is supplied by political actors from institutions, social and economic interest groups, NGOs, and social movements, who make demands in relation to events.
