The Lisbon Council convened the High-Level Working Lunch on Media in the Digital Age, engaging top policymakers and experts in a thought-provoking discussion on the future of news in Europe. David Levy, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, research director, presented Digital News Report 2015, the Reuters Institute’s highly-regarded annual survey of media consumption in the digital age. This autumn, the study has been expanded to provide coverage of 18 key countries. Katarzyna Ananicz, information society and telecommunications counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Poland to the European Union; My Bergdahl, telecommunications, and information society counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Sweden to the European Union; Karen Boers, co-founder and managing director of Startups.be; Ed Brannigan, head of press at the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European Union; Anne Bucher, deputy director-general at DG economic and financial affairs in the European Commission; Aikaterini Daouti, press attachée at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union; Jakub Dürr, deputy permanent representative at the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the European Union; Julie Fionda, member of cabinet, Marianne Thyssen, European commissioner for employment, social affairs, skills and labour mobility; Günther Grathwohl, telecommunications and information society counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the European Union; Clyde Kull, deputy permanent representative at the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the European Union; Mario Mariniello, adviser on digital single market at the European Political Strategy Centre in the European Commission; Vibeke Pasternak Jørgensen, deputy permanent representative at the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the European Union; Juho Romakkaniemi; head of cabinet, Jyrki Katainen, European Commission vice-president for jobs, growth, investment and competitiveness; and Alexander Winterstein, deputy chief spokesperson of the European Commission, joined the debate.