On Monday 2nd of September 2002, News-watch began a year-long investigation into the Today programme’s coverage of European Union issues. Over the next-twelve months every edition of the programme was monitored in its entirety, amounting to 313 individual programmes and…

This study considered the coverage of EU-related items on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme over three weeks before the EU leaders’ summits in 2000 (Feira, Portugal, June 2- June 22) and 2002 (Seville, June 4- 24). The aim was…

An examination of the treatment of the issue of the introduction of euro notes and coins in Europe on the main BBC national news  and  current affairs programmes, based on the full transcripts of the relevant broadcasts.

A survey based on the comprehensive monitoring and transcribing of more than 250 programme items during the period of the 2001 general election  The analysis is divided into several key areas: first the coverage of Andrew Marr, the most high-profile…

News-watch, then known as Minotaur Media Tracking, investigated a strand of BBC programmes across radio and television channels in February 2001, entitled ‘Europe and Us’, which attempted to explore the UK’s relationship with the EU across a range of programme…