Latest research
Our latest piece of research has recently been published in Journalism Studies; “Does the political context shape how “due impartiality” is interpreted? An analysis of BBC reporting of the 2019 UK and 2020 US election campaigns.” The research shows inconsistencies with how impartiality seems to be employed within the BBC, and in many instances a continued reliance on balance and “he-said-she-said” reporting, rather than true impartiality.
You can read the full paper here. To watch an animation highlighting some of the main findings of the paper, click on the video to the right. We worked with Learning on Screen to produce the video.
We spent six weeks asking people about media coverage of the Coronavirus: Here's what they told us
Between 16 April and 27 May 2020, we carried out an online news diary study with 200 people who were broadly representative of the UK population. The six-week study tracked their news consumption habits and attitudes towards different media at a critical point in the health crisis, as well as their knowledge and understanding of the pandemic and how it was handled in the UK. Here’s a flavour of the findings, which include some research related to the ongoing content analysis study.
The ‘hospectacle’ of reporting from ICUs: what does the public want to see?
TV news bulletins have used footage from inside hospitals that are treating patients afflicted by coronavirus. We look at the ethical issues raised by these reports, and what the public thinks of them.