Survey of the Today Programme’s Podcast Service, December 2005
A survey into the BBC’s Today programme podcast found that the new form of broadcasting raises serious issues of balance and impartiality.
Today Programme Survey – Winter 2005
On Monday 24 October 2005, Minotaur Media Tracking began a nine week investigation into the Today programme’s coverage of European Union news and current affairs. Minotaur sought to establish whether the BBC’s charter requirements of broad impartiality and fairness were…
Analysis of BBC2’s ‘How Euro are You?’ October 2005
Analysis of the live BBC2 programme ‘How Euro are You’, transmitted on October 3, 2005, was produced by Talent TV – devisors of the ‘Test the Nation’ format – in front of a studio audience and had at its core…
Survey of EU Coverage during the period of the UK General Election in June 2005
On Monday 7 March 2005, Minotaur Media Tracking began a fifteen-week investigation into the BBC’s coverage of European Union news and current affairs. Minotaur sought to establish whether EU-related stories were given adequate consideration by the corporation’s flagship news and…
Paper for the Centre for Policy Studies – ‘BBC Bias?’ April 2005
Two case studies for the CPS, looking at constrasting treatments of the Labour and Conservative conferences, and on general election debates on the management of the economy.