UK election 2019: digital election dominated by videos – real and faked
In the days since parliament was dissolved, news coverage of the digital election has been dominated by coverage of videos the parties have posted online.
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Political Journalism
A terrible week for the Tories as Labour go for the mainstream press
Despite the fact that the General Election campaign did not officially start until Wednesday it’s fair to say that for the Conservative party in particular it has been a miserable week.
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General Election 2019. Some early thoughts…
If we were to look back to the last General Election to held in December, a superstitious Conservative party member may have cause to worry.
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Protests in Hong Kong and the Responsibilities of International Media
Let’s all pay full respect to those protesters and their voices, but the only way to legitimise their passion is to seek a productive solution going forward.
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Teflon Corbyn? – A public lecture by Nicholas Jones
Former BBC news correspondent and author Nichols Jones’ public lecture addressed recent news coverage of UK Labour and its leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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Don’t pretend political PR is journalism: The National Assembly for Wales and the independence of our news
When it comes to public communication about politics, Wales has issues.
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Were broadcasters biased against Jeremy Corbyn? It’s the details that count
The reliance on vox pops changed the tone of apparently impartial broadcast coverage.
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Impartiality and the BBC
Responsibility for adjudicating on complaints against the BBC has been taken out of its own hands. OFCOM will now ensure that BBC news conforms to the standards set out in its own editorial guidelines.
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Who will set the General Election campaign agenda?
In the first of a new series Dr Stephen Cushion examines which parties will dominate General Election coverage and who sets the news the agenda.
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Down the Rabbithole Part Two: Alice meets a White Knight, a Fancy Bear and the (Anti-)Red Queen
There is no doubt that what Greenwald describes as the easy prevalence of anti-Russian stereotyping and paranoia is a groove into which we in the West can easily slip.
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