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 2001 general election The analysis is divided into several key…
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 2001, entitled ‘Europe and Us’, which attempted to explore the…
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 the theme of whether the UK should withdraw from the…
Coverage of the European Union on the Today Programme, 22 May – 21 July 2000
News-watch – formerly known as Minotaur Media Tracking – sought to establish whether the BBC’s requirements of broad impartiality and fairness were met on Radio 4’s Today programme between 22…
Reporting of the 1999 Elections to the European Parliament on UK Terrestrial Television Services and BBC Radio 4
The purpose of the survey was to examine the precise content and range of the information presented to prospective voters in the European Elections by the main news bulletins and…