How Muslims and Islam are represented in the median reflects societal attitudes towards them, at the same time as shaping the political space within which Muslims feel excluded or welcome. Indeed, an overwhelming majority of those interviewed for this report hold the view that the portrayal of Muslims in the media affects the public perception of them.This report investigates two key inter-related questions:, 1. The extent to which the media is perceived to impact integration and social cohesion amongst Europe’s diverse communities, and, 2. Whether the combination of the nature of today’s mainstream media reporting, the emergence of domestic minority media serving Muslim communities, and the proliferation of access to satellite media from Muslim-majority countries are leading to a segregated approach to media consumption in Europe along ethnic, religious or community lines, or indeed to the formation of ‘segregated information societies’ via ‘Muslim media ghettos’., Furthermore, the report attempts to ascertain the views of Muslims and non-Muslims in relation to the way in which both the mainstream and minority media report on Muslims, the extent to which such reporting has been fair and balanced, which media people choose to consume and what informs those decisions, the extent and way in which Muslims are represented within and by the media, and whether Muslim media role models can change perceptions of Muslims in society at large.