Professor of Communication and Media Analysis James Stanyer discusses the three key findings from the media coverage of the EU Referendum between 19 May – 1 June.
Read moreThe Labour Party is being practically ignored in media coverage of the EU Referendum according to a Loughborough University report released today. Labour voices are present in less than 4% of TV coverage and just 8% of print coverage of the Referendum, and no labour politicians are amongst the top 10 most frequently reported individuals. […]
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This is the second report by the Loughborough University Centre for Research in Communication and Culture on national news reporting of the 2016 EU Referendum.
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It would have come as something of a surprise to a fair few of the Mail on Sunday’s readers when they opened their copy of the May 22 edition and found the headline “Brexiteers’ logic begins to crumble” over a story that said that the leave camp had failed to make its economic case properly.
Read moreA Tory dominance and poor representation from women and longstanding in-out campaigners are the main themes in week one of the Loughborough University EU Referendum media analysis. The analysis, carried out by the University’s Centre for Research Communication and Culture, concentrates on the main news bulletins/programmes on BBC1, BBC2, ITV, C4, C5, Sky, BBC Radio 1 […]
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This is the first in a series of reports by the Loughborough University Centre for Research in Communication and Culture on national news reporting of the 2016 EU Referendum.
Read moreA real time news audit of the EU Referendum by Loughborough University is lifting the lid on what media coverage the campaign groups, political parties and their key arguments are securing each week. Academics from the University’s Centre for Research Communication and Culture have conducted news audits for every General Election since 1992. The referendum audit […]
Read morePolitical strategists, journalists and academics gathered in Westminster this week for a Loughborough University conference focussing on the media coverage of the 2015 General Election campaign. Held over two days on 13-14 July in London, the Political Studies Association’s Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Group Conference, organised in partnership with Ipsos MORI, offered a fascinating insight into the […]
Read moreThis two-day conference will be the ninth in a series initiated by MORI founder Robert Worcester who helped organize the first event of its kind to reflect on the momentous General Election of 1979. Since then the Political Studies Association’s Elections Public Opinion and Parties Group has continued to bring together representatives from the party, media and polling organisations […]
Read morePress partisanship returned with a vengeance in the closing days of the 2015 General Election campaign, research by Loughborough University has found. Since the start of the campaign academics at Loughborough have been conducting a weekly real time news audit, lifting the lid on what media coverage the parties, their policies, MPs and their partners are securing. […]
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