For those interested in issues related to the media, politics and democracy, it seems impossible not to engage with the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, published in 1962. This book is in equal parts a normative statement of how an ideal public sphere should function and an analytical description of the rise and fall of the bourgeois public sphere in the 19th century. Habermas uses ideas from different fields and research areas, such as critical theory, political philosophy, sociology and history. His text intertwines and draws on various materials, from legal texts, popular literature and newspaper articles to public documents and historical secondary literature, to create an exciting but difficult reading experience. In this chapter, I will unravel Habermas’s argument and critically discuss the relevance of his book today.