News-watch responds to the Government’s Media Green Paper, examining proposals for ‘trustworthy news’ prominence and public-service media literacy. It argues that BBC and Ofcom accountability must be strengthened before institutional privilege is expanded, and recommends viewpoint-neutral rules, transparency, user choice and source plurality.
News-watch response to Ofcom’s consultation on the BBC Online Material Code
News-watch responds to Ofcom’s proposed BBC Online Material Code, supporting independent regulation of BBC websites, apps and controlled third-party accounts while warning that the scheme preserves a serious weakness: it offers no route for assessing properly evidenced cumulative partiality across separately commissioned but thematically related output.
Reforming how BBC impartiality is judged
Reforming how BBC impartiality is judged News-watch’s invited submission and supplementary evidence to the BBC Mid-Term Review, drawing on 23 years of monitoring to examine the Corporation’s impartiality reforms, complaints system and regulation by Ofcom.Document typeRegulatory SubmissionPublishedJuly 2022ExtentJuly–September 2022AuthorNews-watchRead the Full SUBMISSIONVIEW KEY FINDINGS ↓[ OVERVIEW ]In June 2022, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport invited News-watch to …
The political assumptions behind BBC Ideas
Public support and editorial prominence diverged A complete analysis of BBC Ideas, the Corporation’s online strand of short factual and explanatory films for “curious minds”, examining all 599 titles published during its first three years and the range of political perspectives they offered.Document typeMonitoring SurveyPublishedApril 2021Extent204 pages · PDFAuthorDavid Keighley and Andrew JubbRead the Full SurveyVIEW KEY FINDINGS ↓[ OVERVIEW …
Public support and editorial prominence diverged
Public support and editorial prominence diverged A detailed analysis of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme during the 2019 General Election, examining whether its coverage of Brexit reflected the full range and strength of public opinion.Document typeMonitoring SurveyPublishedMarch 2020Extent143 pages · PDFAuthorDavid Keighley and Andrew JubbRead the Full SurveyVIEW KEY FINDINGS ↓[ OVERVIEW ]News-watch monitored every edition of BBC Radio 4’s …
Leave and the Left: BBC Bias by Omission, 2002-2017
Leave and the Left: BBC Bias by Omission, 2002–2017 A longitudinal study examining how rarely the BBC represented left-wing arguments for leaving the European Union across fifteen years of coverage.Document typeLongitudinal Research PaperPublishedOctober 2017Extent41 pages · PDFAuthorAndrew JubbRead the Full PaperVIEW Key Findings ↓[ OVERVIEW ]This paper draws together evidence from 30 News-watch surveys conducted between 2002 and 2017. The …
The Harlow Killing: BBC Reporting and the Subsequent Evidence
The Harlow Killing: BBC Reporting and the Subsequent Evidence A documented comparison between the BBC’s initial framing of the killing of Arkadiusz Jóźwik as a possible post-Brexit hate crime and its later acknowledgement that the evidence did not support that interpretation.Document typeBroadcast Case StudyPublished2016-17Extent24-page correspondence dossier and broadcast transcripts · PDFAuthorDavid Keighley and Andrew JubbRead the CorrespondenceVIEW Broadcast Comparison ↓[ …
BBC Radio 4 Today: Summer 2013 Survey
BBC Radio 4 Today: Summer 2013 Survey A twelve-week survey examining whether BBC Radio 4’s Today programme adequately represented the increasingly mainstream debate about the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union. Document typeMonitoring SurveyPublishedNovember 2013Extent92 pages · PDFAuthorDavid Keighley and Andrew JubbRead the Full SurveyVIEW KEY FINDINGS ↓[ OVERVIEW ]News-watch monitored all 72 editions of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme …
BBC Radio 4 Today: Winter 2011 Survey
BBC Radio 4 Today: Winter 2011 Survey An eleven-week survey examining how BBC Radio 4’s Today programme represented competing perspectives during an unprecedented period of coverage of the eurozone crisis and Britain’s relationship with the European Union.Document typeMonitoring SurveyPublishedDecember 2011Extent145 pages · PDFAuthorDavid Keighley and Andrew JubbRead the Full SurveyVIEW KEY FINDINGS ↓[ OVERVIEW ]Between 3 October and 17 December …
BBC Radio 4 Today: Summer 2008 Survey
BBC Radio 4 Today: Winter 2008 Survey A fourteen-week survey examining the prominence, contributor balance and editorial treatment of European Union affairs across BBC Radio 4’s Today programme during summer 2008.Document typeMonitoring SurveyPublishedDecember 2008Extent27 pages · PDFAuthorDavid Keighley and Andrew JubbRead the Full SurveyVIEW KEY FINDINGS ↓[ OVERVIEW ]The survey monitored fourteen weeks of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme during …