Survey of the Today Programme, Winter 2004
On Monday 11 October 2004, Minotaur Media tracking began a ten-week investigation into the Today programme’s coverage of European Union…
European Election Survey – June 2004
This report assesses whether coverage of UKIP by the BBC Radio 4 programme Today – the corporation’s flagship news programme…
Paper for the Centre for Policy Studies – ‘Blair’s EU Turn’
On Tuesday 20 April 2004, Tony Blair formally announced his decision to hold a referendum on whether to accept the…
Paper for the Centre for Policy Studies – ‘An Outbreak of Narcolepsy?’
A paper for the Centre for Policy Studies examining the limitations of the BBC’s EU coverage, arguging that reporting is…
Full year monitoring of Radio 4’s Today Programme September 2002 to August 2003
On Monday 2nd of September 2002, News-watch began a year-long investigation into the Today programme’s coverage of European Union issues.…
Coverage of the June 2002 European Council Meeting in Seville
This study considered the coverage of EU-related items on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme over three weeks before the…
The Launch of Euro Notes and Coins, 1-8 January, 2002
An examination of the treatment of the issue of the introduction of euro notes and coins in Europe on the…
General Election Survey – 14 May to 7 June 2001
A survey based on the comprehensive monitoring and transcribing of more than 250 programme items during the period of the…
BBC ‘Europe and Us’ week, 18 February to 23 February 2001
News-watch, then known as Minotaur Media Tracking, investigated a strand of BBC programmes across radio and television channels in February…
Radio 4’s Today Programme Special Reports on Withdrawal – 29 January to 3 February, 2001
In the three days beginning January 30th, the Today programme mounted a series of items by reporter Sarah Nelson on…